Tipperary GAA star ‘had to do live apology on RTE' the day after cursing during All-Ireland interview
JOHN O'Dwyer had to apologise on-air with RTE the day after he famously cursed moments after winning the 2016 All-Ireland final.
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The 33-year-old was harangued into giving an on-air apology the next day while the team did the traditional visit to Crumlin Children's Hospital
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Yet while common sense would view it as a minor mistake that doesn't warrant an apology, he was pestered into giving one the next day.
Speaking on talkSPORT Ireland's
During a conversation about how characters are few and far between in modern inter-county football or hurling, 'Bubbles' cited his own personal tale of how you can get admonished for showing a bit of personality.
He recalled: "I got absolutely scaled for it like in 2016.
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"After winning the All-Ireland, a microphone and camera are put up into my face 30 seconds after, and I said 'We're the champions of f***ing Ireland'.
"I had to do a live apology on RTÉ from Crumlin Hospital the next morning. I thought I would have to go to the President to make an apology!
"I swear to god. I remember afterwards, I brushed it off. You go out and celebrate your All-Ireland.
"The next morning, county delegates with Marty Morrissey come up and go 'RTÉ are looking for you to do an apology'. I'm just like 'Right, yeah okay, if you just leave me alone, I'll do it'.
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"People are saying there is no characters in the GAA and stuff like this. A lad goes off and he says something, you might call it a slip of the tongue or whatever. Leave it be."
In the podcast's debut episode last month the Killenaule clubman detailed why he actually
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He remarked: "I never would have gotten nervous for inter-county games, I'd have gotten more nervous for club games.
"Because there's probably more pressure on you there. You're expected to run the show there y'know?
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"But county games no. As Conor says, you have your work done by then and so matchday is probably the easiest part.
"I'd say going up through minor and under-21 teams before senior that there's always some pressure there.
"But the most pressure you feel comes from yourself. The manager or other players don't put any pressure on you at all really. I never would've found any pressure only for club games."
The bulk of the episode focused on the extreme training regiments modern players are subjected to in pre-season to prepare themselves for the long season ahead.
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Interestingly, both men noted that there has been a huge increase in how demanding workloads have become over the past decade.
The virtual professionalism of inter-county set-ups where every session is classed as a red, orange or green in terms of intensity has trickled down to the club game too.
On what exactly goes into one of those most severe red sessions, McDonald stated: "You're looking at running between 7-10km whereas with your orange it'd be 5-7km while a green is handy enough.
"That's your Thursday night before Championship job. And in red sessions that's tackling, running, hitting. At no point is it a conversational pace!"
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