The GAA should be looking at marketing gaelic football and hurling to a worldwide audience, according to All-Ireland winner Enda McNulty, even if it means going down the professional route.

"We have the best games in the world, we have to consider very strongly how we are going to promote these games internationally," McNulty told the Irish Independent.

"Whatever it takes to promote and play these games internationally, we have to do that. If we need to significantly explore and investigate having a professional game then we need to do that. It's not a bad thing to explore that and to investigate that."

McNulty - who has worked as a performance coach with Ireland and Leinster rugby - explained: "We need to open our minds to see what we can do with this game. I would love to see little kids in New York in 20 years' time being as good as the kids in Dublin.

"Or the kids in London being as good at hurling as the kids in Clare or the little girls playing ladies football in Melbourne being as good as the girls in South Armagh.

"What a dream that would be. I think the biggest thing stopping us is our mindset. We are afraid to talk about this to look at the feasibility of it.

"If we are afraid to look at the feasibility, how are we going to develop a strategy that can deliver this and, of course, execute that internationally?" Tweet

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