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Ashling Thompson Explains Phenomenon Of Inter-County 'Jersey Pullers'

Ashling Thompson Explains Phenomenon Of Inter-County 'Jersey Pullers'
PJ Browne
By PJ Browne
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Cork camogie star Ashling Thompson is the subject of a new Laochra Gael programme on TG4 tonight.

The 2015 All-Ireland winning captain's club and inter-county careers are charted along with her discussing the mental health troubles through which she has fought.

Thompson also explains to viewers what is an inter-county 'jersey puller'.

A jersey puller, from my knowledge, is like somebody - and in my head male or female - that likes go off with a county player. I think the term 'jersey puller' is always nailed to women. You know, 'She's a jersey puller. She pulls all the county boys or whatever'.

To me, it's who's pulling whose jersey. You could say that there's a fella that's got off with three or four in our team, he's the jersey puller, not the other way around.

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Thompson was also asked about the possibility of her and Joe Canning - someone with whom she has worked with in her role as a Red Bull athlete - getting married and producing a line of "super hurlers".

"I'd be too wild. Imagine the poor children. They'd be so emotionally drained, I'd say, from listening to me on one end and Joe not speaking on the other," she joked and then regretted when the interviewer told her it was going to be included in the show. "He'll kill me."

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Laochra Gael - Ashling Thompson airs Wednesday, February 14th at 9:30pm on TG4

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