[3] Attride was primarily interested in athletics from a young age, specifically middle-/long-distance running, at which he competed both nationally and internationally.
[1] Laois manager Justin McNulty noticed his progress and invited him onto the county panel in 2013.
[1] It meant that Attride became the first Laois captain since Ian Fitzgerald to raise a trophy aloft in the Hogan Stand of Croke Park.
While blocking a ball during stoppage time of his county's 2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship semi-final victory over Carlow at Croke Park, Attride collided with the knee of an opponent, was knocked unconscious, stretchered from the field of play and spent a night in the Mater Hospital after sustaining a double fracture to his skull.
[2] He took up a teaching position at Bondi High School and trained with the Clann na Gael club.