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07th Jul 2015

Pic: Croke Park Hotel guest arrives to find framed picture of Joe Brolly on the bed in his room

Did Marty Morrissey put it there?

Conor Heneghan

Well Joe Brolly, what do you think of that?

Like plenty of Irish sporting pundits, Joe Brolly is a man who tends to split opinion down the middle; some can’t get enough of him, while he drives others up the wall.

JOE reader Gary Coleman belongs in the latter category, which it was why it was a huge surprise for him to find a framed picture of the Derry legend (adopting his famous kiss-blowing pose) waiting for him on the bed in his room in the Croke Park hotel earlier today.

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Gary, a Louth man, suspects that it was the work of a close friend of his who knows how Brolly can drive him mad and did it to rise him, even though said friend is denying it for the time being at least.

Maybe Joe himself, alerted to how Gary feels about him, did it in an attempt to change his opinion?

Either way, as Gary told us himself, it could have been worse.

Had it been a framed picture of Joe Sheridan – the scorer of the infamous goal against the Wee County in the 2010 Leinster Final – then Gary would really have blown a fuse.