Joe Kernan has baulked at the idea of GAA clubs who lose players to Australian Rules being compensated.

The ex-Armagh and Ireland International Rules manager Joe Kernan cannot see how it would work.

"I wouldn’t be thinking of going down that road of compensation," he told RTE at  the launch of Trócaire's Christmas ‘Gifts of Love’ range.

"We’re not professional and even though we put a lot of time into it, I suppose we don’t want to see anyone going away or the good players we have leaving, but these boys are amateurs and we’re always going to be amateurs. If they can go out and do something out in a different country and make a living for themselves who are we to say no?"

"I would just hope that, one, they wouldn’t go and that would solve all the problems. But if they do go we have to support them and wish them luck and hopefully they stay safe."

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