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18th July 2017
09:36pm BST

Host Colm Parkinson asked McCann about the role his father has on his gaelic football career, and the half back revealed his envy at the teacher lifestyle.
"He would be, aye, if he's not on his holidays in Portugal. He only came back there the other day, he's a teacher so I'm very jealous of the teachers."Many of his team-mates are also teachers, and he, as a pharmacist looks on to his peers thinking, wouldn't it be grand to have all that time to prepare.
"I'm very jealous of all my friends who are teachers, especially this time of the year when they've loads of time off," said the Killyclogher St. Mary's club man.It's no wonder, then, that a host of GAA players are teachers. Take, the teacher training college of St. Pats Drumcondra which has produced many great GAA players such as Cillian O'Connor, Cormac Costello and Ciaran Kilkenny in recent times.
Mary Immaculate in Limerick won the Fitzgibbon Cup hurling competition for the last two years, with inter-county stars Cian Lynch, Ronan Maher and many others going down that path.
You wouldn't blame them.
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