Since my move a GAA club in London has asked if I'd like to play

Normal People Paul star tells of strange offer after football scenes in hit drama

- LYNNE KELLEHER

TEAM ROLE Paul plays for Kildare minors in 2014

NORMAL People star Paul Mescal was asked to join a football team after starring in the hit show.

The 24-year-old actor revealed a London GAA club contacted his agent after seeing him play on TV.

Paul, who has been in London since two days before the lockdown, is a talented footballer who has lined out for his home county of Kildare.

He said: “It’s so funny there are Gaelic football clubs in London and because I have been talking a little bit about Gaelic football there is a team in London called Thomas McCurtains who reached out to my agent as if it was a job.

“[They] were like, ‘We were just wondering if Paul would ever consider coming back and playing Gaelic football?’, a really formal email to my agent.”