IN MY DAY YOU’D DRINK, TAKE P**S NEAR LAMPPOST AND HAVE KEBAB

DUBLIN legend Keith Barr reckons modern stars like Diarmuid Connolly have it tough.

The 1995 All-ireland winner bemoaned the social media age and said it’s impossible for top players to keep a low profile. Barr joked that when he was a player you could be ‘jailed, bailed and out before anyone knew about it’ but claimed those days are long gone.

Two-time All-star Barr said: “Back in in the 90s and 80s when I started, you could go out and have a pint, you could come out of the pub, you could have a p**s beside the lamppost, do you know what I mean?

“You might get a f***ing kebab on the way home, or you’d chase a bit of skirt.

And you were allowed to grow up, you were allowed to make mistakes, and you were allowed to have fun.

“With social media and all of that, everybody wants opinions, and to give their opinion on this, that and the other.

“So it’s quite difficult I would presume to be an inter-county footballer at the moment because of social media. Everything is out within 24 hours”

Barr claimed the intense scrutiny on Dublin favourite Connolly in recent seasons has been

‘ridiculous’. The five-time

All-ireland winner spent this summer in the US and hit 12 points for Donegal

Boston (above) in the recent Boston final.

Barr doesn’t expect Connolly to be back in blue next year though fellow Dubs legend Charlie Redmond (inset, with Barr) thinks Connolly will give it a crack if he’s in Ireland. He said: “I cannot understand how someone going for four-in-a-row could offer up that chance.

“It’s beyond me. He obviously has his own reasons and so be it but I don’t know how anybody could offer up that. This is a once in a lifetime chance. If we win on Sunday it’ll only be the fourth time in history that it’s been done, four-in-a-row.”

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