Noel Gallagher gave up GAA for 'drink, drugs and birds'

28 June 2012

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher returned to Dublin’s Croke Park this week almost 30 years after his GAA football-playing days which he abandoned for the lure of “birds, smoking, drinking and drugs”.

The 45-year-old rocker used to play hurling for his local team Oisin’s - Manchester champions - but were trounced when they played against an Irish team in Croker.

“We came over here to play an Irish team and we got leathered. We all played. I enjoyed it at the time. I was still at school then,” he said.

But he conceded: “Quite quickly after school was when smoking and drinking and birds and drugs take over. Football goes out the window then, doesn’t it?”