Keith Andrews says he has no regrets about his criticism of Martin O'Neill
Andrews was named the new Brentford boss last month after impressing as the set-piece coach at the Premier League side.
But when O'Neill was asked on the radio to comment on the appointment, he brought up the criticism Andrews had levelled at him during his time as Ireland manager.
O'Neill told TalkSport: "The irony is when I was manager of the Republic of Ireland he was a particularly vitriolic critic of mine at the time.
"He was really dead against me trying to use set-pieces to try to win games.
"The irony is he becomes the set-piece coach. Really I say good luck to him. Brentford have decided, if it is the case, that he should get it.
"I hope he does get it because then he will realise what management is all about."
Andrews, 44, has refused to backtrack, though, on the comments he made about O'Neill's reign as Ireland.
He said: 'My conscience would be very clean in terms of where that came from.
'Ireland was the only thing I supported as a kid growing up. I've already touched on it.
"Very patriotic, very passionate, very proud to be sat here as an Irish Premier League manager.
'So it came from, again, going back to the way I work, I studied the team, gave my opinion, and invariably you can't please people all of the time.
"And occasionally you do upset people, yeah, for sure.'
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