Shane Walsh: Transfers are sensitive but you have to live your life and I'm based in Dublin now

Galway star Shane Walsh accepts that transfers are a divisive issue but he believes the controversy around his proposed move to Kilmacud Crokes has "probably gotten too much attention".

Walsh is now based in Dublin and wants to switch clubs to cut down on the time he spends travelling west.

Kilkerrin/Clonberne chairman Ian Hynes had vowed to fight the request, but also said their opposition was more about rural clubs losing players and that he would wish Walsh well if the transfer does go through.

The 29-year-old, who was today named the PwC GAA/GPA July Player of the Month said there was no update on the proposed switch and that he had been "oblivious" to any local backlash.

"This isn't the first transfer request, and it won't be the last," he told RTÉ Sport. "There's a process with this. It's ongoing at the moment, and I just have to wait to see what the outcome is.

"I haven’t been at home to go through anything. The week after the game I was with the team. The week after that I went away to Spain. I just came back for my best friend’s wedding and now I’m here in Dublin so I haven’t really been down since the game. It’s only now that I’m starting to get back to normality a bit. I’ve been a bit oblivious to everything.

"There probably is a lot of noise about it. When I came home, I would have spoken to one or two close friends, family and that. They were saying to me 'sure there are people that talk about things for the sake of talking about things'.

"You have to live your life. For me, it was easy to switch away from it. It probably got too much attention. I don't think there's anyone that cares that much about me to wonder what I'm doing every single day, bar my Mom and Dad, and my family."

"Could it have been handled better?