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Darragh O’Se, working on Sky Sports, with Peter Canavan and Jim McGuinness.
DARRAGH Ó SÉ has been no stranger to divulging the odd behind the scenes nugget in his article in The Irish Times.
Last Sunday, Darragh was on duty with Sky Sports and was caught in the middle of a colourful exchange of words between former Tyrone great, Peter Canavan and GAA punditry’s bad boy, Joe Brolly.
“The Sky Sports studio and the RTÉ studio are side by side down where the Hogan Stand meets the Davin so there’d always be a certain amount of intermingling before the game,” wrote Darragh in his column.
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“I was chatting away to Peter Canavan and Jim McGuinness on Sunday when Joe Brolly landed in. “What about ya?” he said to Canavan, the way Ulster people say hello. Canavan gave him a very short answer (second word, “off”) and walked away.”
“I was surprised at two things – one, that anyone would take Brolly enough to heart to get that annoyed at him in the first place. And two, that as war was breaking out in Ulster, a Kerryman like me was in the middle like Switzerland.”
“I spent my career wanting to beat the feckers and now they were all my friends and couldn’t stand the sight of each other. In a situation like that, how would you know what end of you was up?” he wrote.
Darragh was also envious of the Kerry players who defeated Tyrone in a thriller in Croke Park.
“I was jealous of the Kerry players on Sunday, there’s no point saying otherwise. They managed to beat Tyrone in Croke Park, which was something I never did. I was willing them to win and they did but they had to overcome a poor enough display in the first half to do it. That’s good positive stuff to be bringing into an All-Ireland final.”
You can read Darragh Ó Sé’s full article in the Irish Times HERE
