Wicklow football manager Johnny Magee insists that dual players in the Garden County "won't be pulled and hammered from both ends".

Chester Kelly is one man who will be very much on the radar of both Magee and his hurling counterpart Casey O'Brien this season and the Dubliner says every effort will be made to integrate dual performers into both camps:

"I want the best footballers with me playing for Wicklow, I'm sure Casey O'Brien wants the best hurlers playing with him for the hurling," Magee says in The Wicklow People.

"The communication I would have with the dual players would be that they won't be pulled and hammered from both ends.

"We would look after them and we won't be putting them in the position where they have to make a decision.

"We don't want to add pressure on them. We want to get the best out of them for the hurling and for the football. There'll be an understanding there.

"The way things are, Wicklow can't afford not to have their best players playing for them, whether it's hurling or football. If we can have a compromise that works and if the players are happy with it, then it's only for the benefit of Wicklow."

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