It was announced this week that the Mayo senior football team are going on a training camp to Portugal this week .. This has been with a mixer reaction, hard to still call the game of Gaelic football amateur anymore with these type of moves ..
MORE HERE: 🚨One of Limerick’s star hurlers has done the unthinkable this morning ..
Mayo footballers head for Portugal training camp https://t.co/VtVndrnSnD
— Irish Examiner Sport (@ExaminerSport) November 26, 2025
Game is completely gone. RIP THE GAME. https://t.co/ugRMwOnTuK
— RG (@R_GR01) November 26, 2025
Here are some of the comments online ..
What self employed man could take a week off a month before Christmas to train in Portugal. The amateur status Burns preaches is in name only. Becoming an Inter County player is only compatible now with a very narrow section of Irish society
Thanks to the taxpayers of Ireland. Amateur my bollox.
May aswell make it professional at this stage
If one county is going they should all be going, how is this a level playing field for the likes of Leitrim, Sligo, Westmeath etc .. completely wrong ..