Joe Brolly has revealed that the player who was suspected of supplying him with information about his team's training regime has been targeted by his team-mates.
The outspoken RTE pundit likened inter-county players to "indentured slaves" in a recent interview with Newstalk Radio. He claimed that players' personal and professional welfare is being put at risk by intense training regimes, over-demanding managers, "a victory at-all-costs mentality" and a hectic fixture schedule.
Brolly seemed to have detailed knowledge of the training regimes in certain camps and in his Gaelic Life column today, he claims a player suspected of giving him details in one county was victimised by his team-mates.
"He was hit hard and late and subjected to verbal abuse. It is the sort of story you might associate with jocks playing US college football, or marines at an army training camp," he wrote.
Speaking yesterday, GAA president Liam O'Neill said the Association was powerless to stop managers from putting undue pressure on their players.
"What we have at the moment is not a GAA central problem, it's not something the GAA president can solve, it's something the trainer and the manager of each individual team can sort," he said.
"I think we have to look at training smarter, rather than longer. There's only so much people can put in. I think we need to find methods that will achieve the same results in the shorter space of time."
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