John Arnold

Live line with Ciarán Cudahy on RTÉ Radio 1.

People said it was inevitable.

I was never in favour of hashbots.

I'm old-fashioned.

I'm just like a lot of people.

I'm involved in the association with over 50 years.

I'm not a saint.

I'm not St.

John of the J or St.

John of Cork or anything, but the point I always made, and nobody ever listened to me, the point I always made is that the ordinary grassroots membership of the J that are involved with their players are working in

The association is amateur based.

We, and I'm not just saying myself, we, hundreds of thousands of people, put a huge amount of work into the association.

Over 10, 20, I'm involved, 50, heaps of people do that, players and volunteers.

And what do we get in reward?

Well, we don't expect to get anything.

We don't get paid, we don't get miles, we don't get anything.

But the one thing we always feel great advantage, if we weren't able to go to a big game and so we can't because of work and all the people because of disability, you'd be saying, well, at least thanks be to God, the association I was always involved in will broadcast those games for us people that couldn't go at home.

And, you know, it's not so much the money, the cost of them, because the jail will set a great value, 95, and if you're a jail member, I think it's 85.

It's not that, but...

It's just, look, I said them old-fashioned, but it's the ethos behind games that we, like the people that could be playing for Donegal and Kerry or Cork and Watford, like wherever they come from, they weren't bought in a professional market.