Kilkenny's Eddie O'Connor has called for GAA players to be paid if they are to be subjected to mandatory blood-testing.
The outspoken Glenmore man, who famously called on the GAA to fund a foreign holiday for the Kilkenny hurlers in his captain's speech after their All-Ireland final victory over Galway in 1993, is urging all inter-county hurling and football players and managers to come together and demand payment if, as expected, blood-testing is introduced next year.
"The GAA can't have jam on the two sides of their bread," O'Connor said in the Irish Examiner.
"If a player takes a Panadol on a Saturday night or a supplement which shows up the following day as a prohibited substance in a blood test, it not alone scars that player's reputation as a hurler or footballer for life, but it could affect them in the workplace in terms of potential promotion in their job.
"The implications are enormous."
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