It's a bittersweet morning for Cork GAA fans with the news that Aidan Walsh has committed to Jimmy Barry Murphy for 2015, deciding to give up his place in the Cork football squad.
Walsh played for both sides in 2014 but had confirmed a few weeks ago that he felt he had to make a choice between the two for next year. Speaking to 96fm, Walsh told them off how his head was wrecked and said:
I’ve come to the decision that I’ll probably have a cut off the hurling this year. I suppose being with the footballers now the last few years and last year trying to do the dual I just feel that I could prove something in the hurling in the coming year.
His decision to go with just one code is another nail in the coffin of the fabled dual star, given Podge Collins decision recently to opt out of the Clare hurling panel. Walsh's last hurrah in the football limelight, for the time being anyhow, will be when he travels to Australia as part of the international rules side next month. However he has not ruled out a return to football in the future:
I wished him [Cork manager, Brian Cuthbert] the best of luck and told him I hope they have more success and do very well this year. I told him maybe down the line I’d get the opportunity to play under him again and left it at that.
Has he made the right choice?
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hat-tip: TheScore.ie
