Kerry's Tommy Walsh doesn't think that GAA players should have to undergo drug testing.

The 2009 All-Ireland winner, who will revive his Gaelic football career in 2015 after spending the past five years in the AFL, said in the Irish Examiner: "GAA players are amateurs. I don't think they should be drug tested. They have no contract, they're not working.

"You want the game to be played fair too. When you run onto the field, you want to be sure that the guy standing beside you if he is going to beat you, he's going to beat you fairly. Of course, you don't want to see it but I don't think it goes on in the GAA and it doesn't go on here either. I have never in my five years here seen anyone taking anything."

Walsh's comments come as 34 past and present Essendon players face a doping tribunal next month.

"The big thing over here is the doctor at the club you trust him. You trust him with the details. You take what he gives you and you don't argue with it. The whole thing now has brought into question that attitude. You need to question the doctor 'what am I taking?'

"It's unfortunate for the players because all you're doing is taking what you're told and now they're paying for that. You're just hoping guys don't have their careers badly affected by lengthy suspensions because they don't deserve it."

Tweet

Most Read Stories