Video: Kevin Walsh hits back at Eamonn O’Hara’s Sunday Game criticism

The Sligo manager refutes what his former player had to say about him and his team on the Sunday Game.

Marty Morrissey managed to get a sit down chat with under fire Sligo boss Kevin Walsh on the news last night and the former Galway player took the chance to have a lash back at Eamon O’Hara.

O’Hara tore into Walsh on the Sunday Game in the wake of the defeat to London in Ruislip, saying that Walsh had ‘a lot to answer for’, that training was inadequate and that he should go. Walsh, unsurprisingly, didn’t agree.

“The Sunday Game was very unfair,” he tells Marty. “I felt it was unbalanced in its presentation of the issues that did arise from the London game. On top of that there were allegations made that have no basis in fact.

“In fact, they were allowed to be made without challenge of debate. Eamonn was entitled to his opinion as an analyst but – as a representative of the Sligo management – we don’t agree with the opinion that he expressed and we certainly don’t accept them as being valid.”

Walsh and O’Hara disagreed over the winter about his return to the Sligo panel, bringing an end to his long career in black but Walsh stated that it was O’Hara’s own decision to leave the panel.

“He made his own decision not to continue with the Sligo football team. This obviously is his right but he is not in a position to comment with authority about internal matters in the panel.”

Marty also asks Walsh if he is going to resign, but Walsh categorically says no. At least he has had his right of reply. Now, over to you Eamonn.