The Kilkenny footballer who marked Dermot Earley has seen the funny side of it

Paul Donnelly, the Kilkenny footballer who starred in this week’s most shared story on JOE, has seen the funny side of things.

Donnelly was the Kilkenny full back in Wednesday night’s Leinster JFC game against Kildare, when at one stage he found himself in the same sphere of existence as the Lilywhites’ double All Star Dermot Earley.

The striking difference in physique between the pair struck a chord with Facebook and Twitter users yesterday, with our counters showing well over 300 shares on the story as of this morning.

But instead of taking anything to heart Donnelly was sportingly getting into the spirit of things on his own Twitter account.

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and then posted a number of humorous tweets about the picture.

Not everyone saw the funny side of it though, with Irish Examiner GAA journalist John Fogarty once again underlining his pressing need for a sense of humour transplant:

Update: John Fogarty has confirmed via Twitter today that he is heading in for surgery. So the sense of humour should be in fine working order again any day now!

Main pic via the man himself, @pauldonnelly21.