What an interesting piece in the August edition of Gaelic Games magazine High Ball. Lock stock and two smoking barrels of how to use, when to use and the benefits of wonder drug Creatine.

Naturally the children of every parish in the country will be simply dying to get their hands on a couple of scores of the powder before school starts - to get an edge you understand.

Niamh Flynn BA, M Med Sci, is a sports psychologist and penned the knowledgable piece on the wholly legal substance. The controversy isn't that Creatine can help athletic performance, but whether sports organisations want to encourage a culture of substance taking to enhance athletic performance. That Creatine has also been labelled a gateway substance into using other "nutritional aids" which may not be as legal was not addressed. Nor was there a counter piece to balance the debate except one paragraph at the end from High Ball's medical expert advising people not to take it!

Could be that those up in Aras Daimhin are entirely happy with their in-house magazine promoting this particular product to the Gaels of Ireland?