Would you accept a used sermon from this man?
The following extracts are taken from Colm O’Rourke ‘The Final Whistle’. These are his own words….
“If a back was giving me a lot of hassle and there was nothing being done about it I often let him go out in front for the ball and, just at the right moment, I’d give him an unmerciful box behind the ear. Of course it is a cowardly act and you run the risk of getting one in return or starting a stand up fight, but extreme measures are sometimes needed to allow the game to be played in the way it is supposed to be. For the last few years, being involved with the Sunday Game on RTE has been a major disadvantage in that a few people who needed to be sorted-out badly got away with doing things that one would normally not accept but, being involved with television meant I had to just put up with it. (Page 154)
“ … in a League play-off against Down in ’93 I gave DJ Kane a box in the mouth which drew some blood and he wondered out loud for the rest of the match whether the incident would be on television that night or in the Sunday Tribune the following Sunday. Afterwards, when we met in the hotel, DJ was still not too happy but when I told him I had been waiting for a long time to give him one, and to make it all the better he would never get me back, he certainly did not see the funny side of it. The following year Meath met Down in the League quarter-final and coming up to the game I was a bit worried that DJ might remember the previous year and exact retribution but he was away for the match and I was saved. DJ was quite right too! The incident never appeared on television, but it was not something to boast about in the Tribune.” (Page 182)
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