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"Every field in Ireland is nearly unplayable. They’re calling off race meetings but hurling matches? Play away. You have humans calling off animals but humans are saying to humans, play away! You wouldn't put a horse out in it!"
"In a TG4 documentary his mother said, "He broke so many windows, we eventually started boarding them up"."
"The least that you expect from an analyst is that they have an opinion. Neither Duignan or Brennan offered this on The Sunday Game."
"Brennan: Hope you get used to that cell you're in.. Six-by-six, not much room to move around in. Colleague: With a big black person. Brennan: With a big black fella there. Colleague: He might like your haircut. Brennan: All he'll want is his bit, boy, up the Gary Glitter."
"Colleague: When you go to Mountjoy, you'll be a small man, that's for sure. Those are fucking real men in there. Brennan: Hardened men, boy, that are in there seven or eight years. Bent over, boy, and have had soap shoved up the cheeks of their arse. Take it like a man. Someone paying lad packets of smokes to protect him. Your future is looking bleak. Brennan: Wait until you see lads who are there for 10 or 12 years. They will take a shine to you. I don't know, your future is looking bleak."
"The boys have been holding Laois back for years with hurling and football. There is no point in fucking having absolute stooks in there and all they are doing it for is their free jackets and their free entry into the matches and they going around scratching their hole when they have absolutely no ambition for the good of the county."
"a number of the executive members were of the view that he shouldn't be offered a new term on the back of what he said."
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"Yesterday's High Court settlement and statement of regret and admission on behalf of the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice for the defamation of Grainne Malone was a serious embarrassment to the State."
"Cody has stalked the sidelines and many a linesman with his looming presence since 1998."
"The next news that I saw was on RTE and the heading was 'Lions'. Whatever the Lions is and whatever that means, best of luck to them. The Lions were beaten [this is incorrect, they won], Ireland were playing Japan - that's a challenge game that they were playing out in Japan... I said to myself, whatever about the Lions, whatever that is, whatever about Ireland playing a challenge game in Japan, I don't give a fuck if Scotland are after shocking Australia in a challenge game."
"I see other sports right, and I like sports, I like all sports, but I see other sports that do not match the hand-eye co-ordination and I see some things being done and it's almost 'stop the world here because did you see the skill.'"
"The last point I'll make, right, as, as I'm on it, 'cause I think it's often in my mind, I actually believe that type of, you know, accusation of disrespecting the traditions of the games, I actually think it's part of the last remnants of British culture on these islands."
"'The hostility towards him is usually more slyly expressed than the goodwill', wrote Cusack's co-author, Tom Humphries, in the Irish Times."
"Mr Cusack has been approached a number of times in recent weeks for comments after it emerged that he wrote the letter, and Rape Crisis Networks Ireland has expressed concerns about the practice of submitting reference letters in such cases. The court heard that there was a testimonial from a 'well-known sportsman' in the GAA who detailed Humphries' volunteer work in the GAA and expressed 'shock and disappointment' at his offending."
"At that meeting, Muskerry divisional board delegate John Crean had expressed concern regarding a character reference Cusack provided for Tom Humphries during the 2017 trial in which the former journalist was convicted of the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child."
"He wouldn't really be up with what's going on in the GAA world, in my view. My honest opinion is I feel a bit sorry for him. Ger isn't involved with any clubs. He hasn't been involved with anyone since he went to Galway and did not have a good time. He actually couldn't read a game. If you read any of his articles, he can't read the game. He doesn't see what is going on. I don't hate Ger Loughnane. I feel sorry for him. Because every single week he is having a cut at someone. It'll be me today and trust me, it'll be someone else again in a few weeks, just look at the way he writes... I remember the night I asked him to present medals to the team [managed to the Liam MacCarthy Cup by Fitzgerald] in 2013, he actually said to them he did not rate them a good team until they won a second one, which I thought was a very nasty thing to say to them. Before we played Galway in 2015, the things he said about them were unreal, he gave them so much motivation. I remember a member of the Galway management team telling me only a year or two ago that Ger gave them so much motivation, they had things up in their dresssing room. That tells its own story about Ger Loughnane. The only one who is 'me, me, me' is Ger Loughnane."
"He's an introverted character and he's exceptionally shy. He doesn't really want the limelight - he's not that sort of character. He's private and shy and most people don't see that."
"For most people, Davy Fitz is the wide-eyed caricature we see during a season of Sundays on the sideline, as Bulfin says, 'giving grief to the linesman and taking grief off the fourth official'."
"That man would die for us, and we'd die for him."