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06 Sept 2025

We asked AI to turn Offaly GAA stars into cartoons - can you name the real players?

ChatGPT fairly botched the conversion of one image as it gave us a new sponsor 'Blenisk' instead of Glenisk and totally re-imagined the famous Offaly crest and jersey

We asked AI to turn Offaly GAA stars into a cartoon - can you name the real players?

We asked AI to turn Offaly GAA stars into a cartoon - can you name the real players?

ChatGPT has re-imagined some Offaly GAA stars - past and present - and the results are mixed to say the least. 

We simply asked the software to turn some pictures from our GAA archives into Pixar-style characters.

It's fair to say the AI bot botched the conversion of one image in particular as it gave us a new sponsor 'Blenisk' instead of Glenisk and totally re-imagined the famous Offaly crest and jersey.

One of the pictures is fairly obvious as one of our greatest ever hurlers, but can you guess the rest. The answers are at the bottom of the article.

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ANSWERS:

IMAGE 1 - Current Offaly football star Jack Bryant

IMAGE 2 - Former star Niall McNamee

IMAGE 3 - Brian Whelahan

IMAGE 4 - Cormac Egan and Mickey Harte

IMAGE 5 - Johnny Pilkington

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