Unemployment levels are so high that men in their late teens and early twenties can't afford to hang around. GAA, although played like a professional sport, is amateur. And the chance of national football glory in Croke Park is no substitute for a living. "Eight of our best players have emigrated and more of them are going after Christmas either to Australia to Britain," Banbury told me before Chr
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