There was a stage in adolescence where maybe there was nothing else to do, but sometimes you were almost looking for a fight. Ronan Brady (left) in action with Roscommon. It becomes a place where you can make those inappropriate jokes you can’t make in normal society and that breeds a mentality where you start thinking a certain way. I guess the term “boys will be boys” is a justification for bad behaviour. How 20 men will behave in a room with no females changes completely with just one female in the room. The next thing she’d wallop you and you’d know she meant business, that she could hold her own. Girls and boys played together up to a certain age – you’d be marking a girl – and sometimes a girl would teach you a lesson on the field. It's a place where you can go and do that safely.
It was controlled aggression… Some of the best guys you'd know off the field you'd have the mightiest of battles with on the field.
