Donegal GAA star Eamon McGee has revealed how he got rival player Diarmuid Connolly’s phone number and abused him regularly while out on the town.
The Gaoth Dobhair star admitted he would call the Dublin star’s mobile phone and shout abuse down the phone at him during the height of their rivalry.
Now recently-retired McGee admitted “I don’t think Diarmuid has much time for me now. He thinks I’m an asshole.”
McGee explained the madness behind trying to get into Connolly’s head with tomorrow being five years since Donegal’s famous All-Ireland semi-final with the Dubs.
“Diarmuid Connolly was went off in that match, which meant he was in danger of missing the final. So I got hold of his number to say that we’d back him up in any appeal.
“As things turned out Connolly got off the hook and played a big part in Dublin’s win over Kerry.
“But …..I had Connolly’s number now, which was dangerous.
“Any time I was on a night out after that, I’d get a notion in my head to ring him and abuse him.
“He eventually stopped answering my calls, and then he unfollowed me on Twitter,” revealed McGee in his Irish Daily Star column today.
Making a prediction on tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Kerry, McGee said it will be a huge contest but he expects the Blues to have too much for the men form the Kingdom.
“I expect Kerry to throw everything they have at Dublin. They’ll pull tails and hiss away if that’s what it takes.
“But this will be a heated affair, for sure, but I think Dublin will have to much for Kerry. Dublin by five or six,” he said.
