Niall McNamee will make a decision on his inter-county future over the winter.

The longest-serving inter-county footballer in the country along with Laois’ Ross Munnelly (both made their championship debuts in 2003), McNamee is coming up on his 37th birthday, yet shows no signs of slowing down as he mulls over a 20th season in the Offaly jersey.

Speaking on The Players Voice podcast, the Rhode sharpshooter revealed: "I'll just see how I feel at the end of the year.

"I might be absolutely buzzing to get back or I might just be drained with it again and say, 'Do you know what? It's maybe time to step away' and that's ultimately what it will come down to - my mental state around it in terms of do I feel emotionally exhausted with it or do I think I have something else to give?

"If I feel I have something else to give, I'll absolutely go back but if I feel that emotionally.... because physically I know I'll be fine but there are things going through my head a lot, like do I want to do an hour's journey down to Kilcormac (Faithfield Fields) when I'm very, very busy with work and lots of other stuff going on, three times a week and then a game at the weekend?

"And you're sitting on a bus driving up to the likes of Enniskillen or somewhere on a Sunday morning when you could be out playing 18 holes of golf. These are all the things that are kind of flipping through my head at the moment."

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