RTÉ GAELIC FOOTBALL pundit Joe Brolly says he rang Tyrone midfielder Sean Cavanagh yesterday to apologise.
The outspoken Derry native launched a stinging verbal attack on the Red Hand talisman and Mickey Harte’s cynical tactics in the wake of the narrow win over Monaghan in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final on Saturday evening.
But after a week in which his comments have been dissected by the GAA world, Brolly says he made the call yesterday to apologise for ‘one line’ in the televised tirade.
“I rang Sean yesterday,” Brolly said on TV3′s Ireland AM. “I meant everything that I said, – everything that I said — and you know it is a cancer in the game and it’s destroying the spirit of the game, it’s permeating through to under-age levels and all of that.
“But I spoke to Sean yesterday and apologised to Sean for one line, which I hadn’t realised I said at the time. About ‘you can forget about him as a man’. What I meant obviously was as a man and how he conducts himself on the field. But it’s nothing to do with his private life.”
Brolly said Cavanagh accepted his apology and they moved on to discuss Tyrone’s semi-final opposition.
“We spent half and hour talking about the pros and cons of Mayo,” he said. “But that part of it… I meant everything I said but I didn’t mean to impute anything about his private life. It was most unfair and I appreciated that when I looked at it again so fair is fair and he was very gracious about accepting it.”
Here’s the footage:
YouTube: Jeffrey Molloy, H/T Balls.ie
