Charlie’s on fire
Feelings in the capital are still fairly tender after last Sunday’s epic Dublin-Mayo All-Ireland semi final draw in Croke Park and one Dublin legend is very unhappy with some of last week’s action.
Ciaran Whelan has already had to defend his role on the Sunday Game after being accused of being too soft on the cynical play, while referee Joe McQuillan has been blasted by both sets of supporters for some controversial decisions.
Players from either side have been accused of lots of unsavoury incidents, and and one Mayo forward in particular has taken huge criticism from Charlie Redmond.
The former All-Ireland winner with Dublin in 1995, spoke to FM104 on Monday and was very unhappy with the antics of Cillian O’Connor.
“The incident with Roy O’Carroll, to me it defies logic why no one is asking any questions of Cillian O’Connor and his actions in causing the facial injury.”
“Rory needed over a dozen stitches to a facial injury and he is not in work today (Monday) because of it.”
“He was also the third person in in the Dimrauid Connolly incident and can be clearly seen striking Diarmuid Connolly on the ground in that incident and again nobody made reference to it.”
The former forward also then went on to blast the Sunday game for it’s biased coverage, in his view of Dublin.
“The Sunday Game to me in the last year has improved hugely however there are people on it who have hatred for Dublin and that hatred emanates so much from them”
“We saw yesterday(Sunday) Kevin McStay and the reference to Philly McMahon and he said yesterday that Philly McMahon feigned injury and he did this and that and he never once drew attention to what Cillian O’Connor did.”
“I think it’s time that RTE reflected on some people on that program and removed them from that program.”
Redmond then praises Ciaran Whelan for giving a ‘fair assessment of the game’ which he feels McStay didn’t.
You can listen to the full piece below which was broadcast on FM104 on Monday
H/T to LiveGaelic.com
