With Dublin there was obviously a bit of money, with AIG there, but everyone else had to bring it up a level I suppose. But I think Dublin, Mayo, and Kerry have all brought it up a level as well. “And yet McGuinness was mentioning the Dublin team, and the resources they have, which is a very ironic. Donegal are going away for five days this week (to the Lough Erne resort), and you can’t get any more professional than that. “Every year it’s lifted to another level,” he says, “and at the stage where it’s not just gone to nearly professional, but that it is a professional set-up.
With that comes a deep insight into Kerry’s All-Ireland football showdown against Donegal on Sunday week, and what both managers share more than anything, says Russell, is their unwavering level of professionalism: indeed Gaelic football is at the stage where it cannot possibly get more professionalism – at least not without going professional in the strictly professional sense. Information can come from any direction these days, although when Mike Frank Russell tells you he played alongside Eamonn Fitzmaurice from minor on upwards, and also alongside Jim McGuinness for a couple of years in college, no one can argue with the strength of the source.
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