Barrett played in the Munster Championship defeat to Cork that summer but was dropped for the remainder of the campaign as Tipp reached the All-Ireland semi-finals. “I’d have a fierce problem with things like that because, at the end of the day, this is only an amateur sport,” said Barrett. My mother doesn’t need to see my name in a headline or in some stupid article. “Like, any time Tipp lost a match it was: ‘Ah, sure they were out drinking the weekend before’. I’m not going to put salt in any wounds and he’s not going to (bring it up), there’s no point.

Source: Irish Examiner December 11, 2019 23:58 UTC