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25th April 2023
01:35pm BST

Gaelic Games role models from across the country rallied under the banner of diversity and inclusion in Croke Park today, as SuperValu launched their sponsorship of this year’s GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the third year of their #CommunityIncludesEveryone campaign.[/caption]
"But I never feel suffocated by football."It gives him more hours in the day too that, unlike many of us who spend hours mindlessly scrolling through Tik Tok and Instagram, he doesn't do social media. Never has. "When I was younger I suppose I just never really bothered with it," he explains. "There wasn't any reason for it and then I suppose it had gone so far that I was kind of, sure I was happy enough not being on it so I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything. "So I'm happy with my decision." In many ways, having trekked after his father as a youngster, when Dermot was reffing games, very little has changed. "Dad would have reffed club games for a good few years so we would have been going all around the county with him to be fair. That's probably where out introduction came from. "Our parents always went to the Kerry games too, and we tagged along." Football. Football. Football. Dermot is the chairman of the Fossa club and it's clear that, for all the adulation and celebrity-cult status surrounding his sons, none of it is wasted on them. They appreciate it all. That's why, between Dermot and David, they try to reply to all the letters of fan-mail that come their way.
"You're hearing stories of maybe of people that were sick or might be sick or something like that and might have been watching the games and maybe seeing Kerry being successful and stuff like that might have helped them along.
"So it's great to see stuff like that, so I suppose, myself and my father, we'd try and write back to as many of them as we possibly can."
"It's probably changed now from, like, I don't think there's as many people writing letters anymore, so a lot of it tends to be like school projects and stuff like that where they're writing.
"Do you know when you used to have to learn how to write a letter and stuff like that, so you'd be the person they'd choose maybe.
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"The post-man is busy alright yeah," he laughs.
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