Kevin Walsh might feel wronged but he’s not going to get an apology anytime soon while seeing as it’s Friday, take the time to revisit one of the all-time classic GAA photographs.
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
It’s no secret that Kevin Walsh has had something of a tough week. First his side suffer a shock defeat to London on Sunday, then he has to hear what Eamonn O’Hara said about him on The Sunday Game and, at the tip of the iceberg, a cruel internet prankster tampered with his Wikipedia page with a cutting swipe at the Galway native.
Walsh has had support from the County Board and from Mickey Harte amongst other figures in the game but he ain’t going to be getting an apology from RTE, the station that gave O’Hara the platform to attack his former manager on Sunday night.
RTE released a statement to The Irish Examiner this week, which read: “Eamonn O’Hara is an analyst on The Sunday Game and offered his opinion on last Sunday’s programme as such.
“Kevin Walsh has had the opportunity to respond to these remarks in an interview on RTÉ News last night. We are all now looking ahead to another action packed weekend of GAA championship coverage with RTÉ showing three live games.”
With the statement (which also managed to be a none too subtle plug for RTE’s Championship coverage despite being only three sentences long) it appears that the latest GAA controversy is done and dusted… at least until The Sunday Game create another new one this weekend, of course.
An all-time classic GAA photo revisited
We got a good laugh this morning when a picture of a casually dressed player on the Roscommon representative team in New York, sent in by JOE reader Gary Moore, arrived in our inbox.
At the end of the piece we put a callout for similar images of GAA players clad in outfits that don’t exactly conform to normal standards and while we haven’t received any fresh ones yet (get to it people), we did get sent in an old classic from JOE reader Sean Moynihan on Twitter.
Many of you have no doubt stumbled upon this one before – it was also taken in Gaelic Park in New York – but we don’t really need an excuse to revisit one of the all-time great GAA scenes, featuring one team with ten players, the other team with eight, a goalkeeper wearing a suit and a lady in her glad rags doing the umpire duties.
Classic.
