MARTIN O’NEILL’S STRAINED relationship with the Irish media and in particular RTÉ reporter Tony O’Donoghue has been a recurring theme of his time in charge of the national team and that issue looks unlikely to change anytime soon on today’s evidence.
All the way back to O’Neill’s first competitive game in charge away to Georgia, the manager was palpably unimpressed with O’Donoghue’s line of questioning.
The 65-year-old coach was similarly tetchy, perhaps understandably so, after seeing his team lose 5-1 to Denmark in last November’s World Cup play-off.
O’Donoghue at the time asked if the result constituted a “humiliation” before a visibly agitated O’Neill cut the interview short (see below).
"We can come back again" - A defiant Martin O'Neill speaks to @corktod after a "really tough" night for his Irish team #irlden #rtesoccer pic.twitter.com/0OaGVwle6t
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) November 14, 2017
At the Nations League draw today, the tension between the pair was evident yet again.
O’Neill brought up the fact that O’Donoghue had said “hard luck” to him after the Denmark loss, claiming he was subsequently subjected to a “verbal attack” by the reporter, before asking whether O’Donoghue was being “disingenuous” with his off-air comments.
The Ireland boss was also not happy with O’Donoghue’s line of questioning this afternoon. When pressed on the validity of reports that O’Neill felt “stung” by criticism after the Danish defeat, the manager replied: “I thought you’d asked me that question. I thought I’d answered it.”
O’Neill added that the perception of the job he had done “elsewhere was actually very positive, unlike yourself”.
Watch the full interview RTÉ interview below.
Martin O'Neill gives his reaction to the Republic of Ireland's Nations League draw and addresses recent speculation about his future #RTEsoccer pic.twitter.com/cLC1SiDARB
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) January 24, 2018
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I’m with Tony O’Donoghue on this one
@Dermot Lane: o Neil came across very poorly in this interview, very poorly.
@Paul Fahey: O’Neills working with Delaney seems to have made him think he’s beyond approach. Such a shame for a great player and average manager.
@Gulliver Foyle: Wouldn’t be surprised if stoke turned HIM down for the job seeing as though he is above everyone.
@John Jones: probably miffed that he didn’t get the job he wanted and is stuck with us for awhile longer. Miserable git
@Dermot Lane: Absolutely. He’s paid hundreds of thousands of euro by our national football association and he throws all his toys out of the pram if he is asked a few awkward questions. Tony O Donoghue was just asking a few searching questions which is his job
@Dermot Lane: #weareallTonyODonoghue. Everyone has had enough of Martin at this stage. Why he has to be paid a kings ransom to manage a team of no-hopers is beyond me.
@Dermot Lane: There’s no doubt about it but that O’Neill has a ridiculously low level of patience for a football manager. He has clearly been waiting in the long grass for O’Donoghue with more snarky answers. His relationship with O’Donoghue has been terrible since day 1, most of that O’Neill’s doing. That said, I thought O’Donoghue was a disgrace after the Denmark 2nd leg when O’Neill was clearly hurting. There was nothing to be gained from those questions immediately after that game. I think they should take O’Donoghue off the Ireland games. Like it or not, we’re stuck with O’Neill. Can’t be listening to two more years of these interviews where they’re as bad as each other.
@Dermot Lane: sweet Jesus what an ignorant , arrogant little man… it’s going to be a long two years for anyone interested , not me anymore .
@kevin: millions Kevin, Millions, sweet Jesus to produce that muck, and the ” how dare you ” attitude , boy oh boy did we get the wrong O’Neill.
@Mike: No. they aren’t as bad as one another. One is trying to do their job, the other is an overpaid, over-rated, petulant man-child. Have a guess which is which.
I’m generally supportive of Martin O’Neill, and will usually defend him from unreasonable criticism, but the way he treats O’Donoghue is just distasteful and it makes for uncomfortable watching.
@Ewan Euphrenza: really really let’s himself down badly in these interviews and come across so small minded. TOD didn’t say anything unusual but o neill sensitivity and lack of composure without being under anything like pressure is startling for a man in his position.
@Ewan Euphrenza: is it me or did this seem a bit staged. We have a few nothing games with Denmark & Wales that we will lose or get a draw. The International team isn’t worth watching but the Tod/Mon soap opera is entertaining TV. We should be able to vote off a pundit next.
Grow up O’Neill & treat the man with some respect. Very fair questions imo
Martin O’Neill acted really poorly in all this. If Stoke offered him the job, he would have left.
Doesn’t bode well for down the line.
What a bizarre interview. MON was so bitter towards Tony O’Donoghue… because he said ‘hard luck’ after the Denmark game? Why is he getting worked up about that?
I don’t mind MON as a manager at all but he really needs to cool it and stop taking out his frustration on the unfortunates who are interviewing him. It’s not professional and it doesn’t make him look in control at all.
@Malachi: He has a problem with Tony saying hard luck,coming across as sympathetic, before an interview and then what he perceived as a critical grilling during the interview. He obviously finds O’Donoghue a bit Jekyll & Hyde
@Malachi: I took it that tod said “hard luck” before the interview in the clip. If that’s the case it was obvious attempt to rankle him and as O Neil says smells of pessimism. Denmark won’t have that result against Ireland for a long time imho.
@Dave O’Hanlon: Might be able to see where he’s coming from if he’s after coming of the field against Denmark, but this is months later and he brought it up again unprompted.
Think it’s time to get his chin up and it came across as very petty altogether
@Michael: Doubt that very much, was pretty clear to me that MON and TOD were talking about the interview after the Denmark game.
@Malachi: agreed, could have made a statement about it after the denmark interview. O donoghue should just have gone straight to interview and said nothing beforehand
@Michael Henvey: what nonsense are you talking my good man? You can only be pessimistic before a game. You can’t be pessimistic about a game that has already been played and lost. Should TOD have been optimistic and said “That was a great win you must have been delighted” after the Denmark game? That doesn’t make sense. We lost. Face facts. Played off the park. Denmark wiped the floor with us. And would probably do the same next week if they played us. And the week after. And the week after that. And next year.
The fella should have just done the honorable thing.He had his time.
MON time up . Have no hope for next 2 years. Feels like when Trap stayed on after Euros .
@Paul Moore: and get who? We must have players to play like Barcelona, how has the Denmark game not opened people’s eyes.. delusion!
@Paul Friday Shannon: If we actually attacked denmark and tried to get the second goal we could’ve been going to Russia. But instead he decides to sit back at 1-0 with 85 mins to go
@Faaez Khan: I thought it was the opposite-didn’t we push forward for the entire 2nd half
@Paul Friday Shannon: Paul, you’re the deluded one. Its not a case of having players like Barcelona. Football is a simple game and holding on to possession of the ball and not giving it to the opposition is rule no.1. Ireland’s national team play a style of football that no one else plays snd it doesnt work. O neill was found out after about 10 games. Iceland, northern ireland and wales all play more attractive and more effective football than we do with similar squads. And wales can do it without gareth bale too.
@TheBluffmaster2: yes when the tie was lost
@kevin: Iceland have better players than us it’s that simple, Wales are not going to the World Cup either, what’s the logic, Steve Staunton tried it and failed, Trappatonie was hailed when he was brought in same as o Neill, jack charltons teams were the same, decent football under McCarthy but we had Roy Keane and that was arguably our greatest teams, before all that we never qualified for a tournament..
@kevin: tell your ‘rule no 1’ to Leicester City who won the premiership with the least possession on average of any team that year.
There’s many ways to play football and soaking up pressure and attacking on the break is a very viable one when your players aren’t technically up to scratch
@Paul Friday Shannon: im sorry paul but you clearly know nothing about football. Iceland dont have better players than us. They have a better manager and play a simple type of football which mixes holding on to the ball when you have it, playing with some belief and ambition, and then defending solidly in an organised manner. Its not rocket science.
@Aaron Buckley: Aaron, where did I say you had to have the majority of possession? I think you’ll find I said holding on to the ball when you have it. They are different things. That indeed was what Leicester did and is not at odds with my rule no.1.
@kevin: and clearly you haven’t seen many Northern Ireland games as they play very like us and usually end up with 30-40% possession in a game (and get a few goals off set pieces)
@Aaron Buckley: I have watched them Aaron and you seem to have a problem understanding what I am saying. I never said you have to have the majority of possession! But when you do have it, and 30% to 40% is fine Aaron, then you hold on to the ball by passing it and trying to create chances to score. We don’t do that. Our keeper and our full backs hoof it down the pitch. That’s a waste of possession and doesn’t work.
@kevin: oh rite so who should take over then?
@Paul Friday Shannon: Well that should involve a proper search Paul but Martin o neill has no belief in his players. Trappatoni was the same. Negative managers with negative tactics.
@kevin: we all want the best for our country, but I still think O Neill is the best man for the job, 2 automatic places to qualify for euros, finish in 3rd get another play off at least, and if we can’t make that then it’s all the same!
@Paul Friday Shannon: we are sh*t but we should let our manager act like an ass**e to a reporter who’s doing his job?manners cost nothing my man.mon is acting like we should treat him like he’s cruyff.paisley.ferguson etc.hes an average manager at best.we can’t say he’s a coach because he doesn’t coach players.who the hell does he think he is.?I’ve lost all respect for him anyway.
@Paul Friday Shannon: sure Paul and sorry if I sounded like a pompous arse but I just think we lack ambition when it comes to our football team. Our rugby association wouldn’t settle for someone like o neill in charge but then they have a proper national association management team
@TheBluffmaster2: yeah because we were 2-1 down. We should have continued pushing forward after 1-0 up
@Faaez Khan: that’s my point, we were 1-0 up attracted the went 2-1 down tried to chase the game and we got hammered, that’s why we play the way do, our best chance in games is keeping things tight.
@kevin: Wales play attractive football. The North and Iceland make us look like Brazil. The North hit long balls up to Lafferty and score most of their goals from set pieces. Iceland are the same.
@prop joe: they do joe you are right but they also mix it up and get it down and play as well. We dont. The easiest way to spot the difference is to see what the full backs do when the goalkeeper gets the ball. Our full backs immediately turn their backs and head towards the half way line because they have been told to do that by the Manager. They never look to get it short. N. Ireland and Iceland dont do that all the time. They mix it up by looking for it short sometimes and as you rightly point out also do long balls and long passes as well.
@Paul Friday Shannon: but we scored really early paul and then after 20 minutes, even when we were still 1 up, you could see we were being torn apart by a team who were well coached and knew how to pass the ball to each other. Our players are capable of doing that if the manager encourages them to play that way. Harry arter is an above average PL central midfielder who flourishes under eddie howe but is a totally different proposition under martin o neill because he has to spend most of his time chasing the ball instead of using it.
@Aaron Buckley: you need pace and to be able to pass the ball to your forwards to play on the break. We play to knick a goal from a corner or free kick. Thats not football
@kevin: yes he does but the standard of players he is playing with there are all able to keep hold of the ball and pass it the foreign players are bread that way, we don’t have any player that plays for the top teams like Man U, Liverpool anymore, look at our last team that went to the World Cup in 02 compared to now, it didn’t work with Brian Kerr, Staunton or Trappatonie, and changing o Neill now won’t make any difference
@Paul Friday Shannon: Did we not qualify for Germany in 88 and Italy in 90 and the USA in 94 ?
@kevin: Agree 100%. It is difficult to watch Ireland under Martin O’Neill. That game against Georgia was one of the worst Ireland have ever played. I would have liked Michael O’Neill to be given a chance, could it be any worse, but that ship has sailed.
It was too good to be true that these 2 jokers would get taken by a premier league side. 2 more years of o Neill ignoring in form younger players for old lads half injured. 2 more years of watching an Irish team fail to string 4 passes together against moderate opposition. Of course with 24 teams qualifying for euros, even Michael d Higgins should be able to get this team to the euros. Won’t stop o Neill comparing it to “great achievements” of Charlton and mc Carthy in qualifying for world cups in the past and euro 88 (an 8 team tournament)!
@Pepper Brooks: To be fair that squad in ‘88 was full of players from the top teams in the old first division. The squad now and in recent years is nowhere near that.
@Pepper Brooks: Michael D should be playing as a central midfielder. He’d be better than what’s out there.
Well done Tony O Donohoe professional and gentlemanly interview as always.Cant bear that we have to listen to O Neill for the next 2 years.Respected O Neill in the past but now all respect is gone.Time for new manager.
@Tom’s: If he was a professional he’d have said nothing before intending to grill O’Neill.
@Dave O’Hanlon: seems you know ittle or nothing about journalism
@Mr Grumble: what rte style journalism?
Martin O’Neill acting like a knob yet again. Not one bit surprising. He should be nowhere near the job. The man has no class.
@Steve Austin: Martin O Neill has far more class that any of the Dunphyite clowns commenting on this forum. You won’t hear his players past or present bad mouth him. The Dunphy brigade still want Andy Reid, and Stephen Ireland playing and Wes Hoolahan who can’t get in the Norwich team. He’s right not to tolerate rubbish critism from people who want to have a go so that they continue to get air time.
@coyote ugly: flipping hell, waded thru a world of trash and ignorance and small minded cr@p to see a genuine comment, how can a nation that gorged in the glory of the last euros, to have over achieved with a relatively poor selection of players, have such a bad memory and bad manners, a nation of begrudgers, expecting silk from cotton, only Iceland can say they have achieved more with less, shame, shame, shame on all of you, thanks Steve for being a voice of reason, being in the minority does not make us wrong
When I’m wishing Roy Keane would take interviews instead of O’Neil that’s pretty grim.
A manager that barely answers questions, a chief executive that wont answer any questions and an irrelevant assistant manager that wont stop answering questions nobody asked, gotta love the FAI
@Enda Reynolds: great post! Sums it up perfectly
There’s definitely no love lost between those two
Over precious arrogance.
Can’t believe you’re all so behind Tony O’Donoghue. I’m not a MON fan and would have be glad to see him go, but the way RTÉ interviews go is a disgrace, it’s like they get a 15 yr old fan who’s just dying to abuse the manager and jump around with “Gotya!” journalism after a loss. You have to treat people like human beings first. MON doesn’t have to be bullied by Tony O’Donoghue that’s not his job.
@Stephen Martin: what question was out of order?
@diarmuid mccarthy: you’ll be a long time waiting for an answer.
@Stephen Martin: how exactly did he bully him?
@diarmuid mccarthy: not this interview but every interview he’s done with MON, and not that I liked Trap either but O’Donoghue hounded him too. Clearly people in RTÉ are encouraging it, personally I feel he’s obnoxious towards managers. It’s fine to ask about people’s future but TOD seems to have to jump on every defeat as an opportunity to ask 6 times. To me he’s just another example of a wider trend of spewing rage for clicks on fan TV.
@Stephen Martin: You haven’t pointed out one question or incident when he was obnoxious or chasing any agenda. RTE is the state broadcaster, both ONeill and Trap used incredibly negative tactics and ignored the best players Ireland had. The questions asked needed to be asked. Do you think Joe Schmidt would treat a reporter like that?We are a nation who doff the cap to our superiors far too often…and the FAI and COYBIG brigade are the worst of the lot. Neither of them are up for the job, they are both treating the FAI as a retirement package. They are a disgrace and TOD has been incredibly patient with the spoilt brats.
@diarmuid mccarthy: sorry when I mention both aren’t up for the job I meant trap and mon….I was in full rant and my fingers couldn’t keep up!
@Stephen Martin: what? Asking real questions instead of tippy toeing around him like he’s some kind of god.get real.
@Stephen Martin: have a look at both interviews again Stephen.where was the bullying?
@james lee: that is the problem though.he really fancies himself as world class.hes won 2 league cups in England and whatever else in Scotland.he really thinks he’s a great.the only one that actually questions him is o Donoghue and he really doesn’t like it.
@Stephen Martin: What bullying ?
Martin is a very bitter man….Topman Tony….only asking what the Irish Supporters want to know….
@John Mac Mahon: not many supporters on here.
His behaviour was rude, obnoxious, condascending and beligerent to a nice guy simply doing his job….O Donoghue enjoys a lot more regard and popularity among the populace than O Neill does. and an apology from O Neill should be forthcoming. Failing that, he should be boycotted by RTE. O Neill commented at tbe end of the interview that TOD had lots more time than the other guys….so he should, he represents the National television station of the country O Neill manages….
@Paul Dorgan: I doubt sky sports were waiting in line for the pri##k
Toe curling
Well done MON, TOD needs put in his place, his questions are the most cringeworthy of any reporter, and you showed up his sneakiness.
O’Neill has been around the game long enough to recognise a disingenuous disgruntled reporter who is desperate to stay relevant in his ‘profession’.
You want a punchbag, that’s not me pal is all he’s saying.
@Gerry Ryan deG: there ya have it.
Martin o Neill is bullying Tony o Donohue. He is being passive aggressive!! Tony o Donohue is to be commended for keeping showing up and keeping asking the quite legitimate questions and O Neill dosent like it … that’s why he’s attempting to bully Tony . Imagine the scrutiny o Neill would be under on a daily basis if he’d took the Stoke job … he quite clearly can’t handle pressure and no longer has the temperament to be a manager of anyone . His football philosophy stinks … we should have let him go . Same old story with Irish soccer .. ah sure any ould codger will do to be our manager. What’s wrong with hiring young , progressive guys .. someone like … Michael o Neill !!
RTE adopted a similar negative approach to people in rugby around fifteen years ago. Remember Hooks Hoosh & their attitude to some young players at the start of their careers. John Hayes & Brian O Driscoll to name two.
Now it seems that RTE will have no coverage of the six nations & Pro12 league in the coming years.
@Locojoe: RTE haven’t had pro 12 for a few years now.
O Neill is one absolute tool after that interview.rather if we were rid of him now.
He’s such a grumpy man.him and Roy suit each other.No need to speak to Tony like that.
Actually, Delaney and Co have a track record in appointing managers who are unable to field even the most basic questions from Tony O’D. I’m thinking back to when Noel King was in charge and he gave Tony some aggression over nothing. MON was found out for his tactical naivety by the Danes and he was waiting to take out his aggression on the first person he met – in this case TOD.
Silly from ONeill to keep this fight going. His nostrils were flaring from the start
MON is painful to listen to, pretty negative style of football which is boring to watch.
Delaney and he are taking the Irish soccer public for a ride and getting away with it.
Lucky Stoke weren’t successful for their future but Ireland are screwed.
Soon reporters won’t be allowed ask any tough questions, does O NEILL not realise he’s accountable to the soccer public.
Hilarious, O’Neill is getting all shirty for Tony O’Donoghue asking what we were all asking, ….what the hell was that? Maybe tell the players a few tactics? He’s like a spoilt child, this is not going to end well.
It’s really not hard to see why Ronald Koeman was so upset by MON.
But who would replace him and do a job with that lack of talent at their disposal?
@Sean @114: Michael ONeill has a far far smaller pool and is doing way better. We have good enough players to compete if they are encouraged to play and are set up correctly. What Irish players lack in talent they make up for in professionalism and team work.
@diarmuid mccarthy: Bring in Michael ONeill and a united Ireland team.we might get somewhere then on the European and world stage.
@Sean @114: Mick Mc Carthy
do you think if he was the Stoke manager , he would speak to Sky sports like that.??
not a chance.
Oh. It would appear that a 12 year old boy has invaded the body of Martin O’Neill in some sort of Freaky Friday-type scenario. Eventually he’ll be answering every criticism with “So’s yer ma”.
O neill has a dark side to him
Attacking the press for asking questions
I wish he had gone
Appaling attitude from O Neill. Addressing the media is a huge part of his job considering how little they actually play. Whether he likes it or not. He comes across as petty and obnoxious. Accept the responsibility and man up. Nothing that the interviewer asked was out of line considering his recent flirtations with premier league clubs. He was perfectly entitled to them. He s doing his job maybe if O Neill stopped going on about how great he is at his he might move on and stop being so precious. And he has done a good kob to date
MON is a ducking farsehole.
@Brian Lilly: well said
O Neill is a nasty piece of work the stoke players were lucky – he was out of order and insulting. Tony O Donoghue asked the questions we
All want answers too. In short it was poor professionalism on 0 Neills part
Scandalous behaviour by O’Neill
He really is coming across as the large end of a bell. Get over yourself Martin. Keep up the good work Tony.
O’Neill s a clown and v ignorant man, he was offered stoke job! Big deal most sacked managers r working week later nature of the business! Your team plays 80′s hoof football awful to watch and were spanked in the play off 1-5 at home! Barely got out of the half away, and you did well? His interviews r beyond embarrassing for fai! You accepted job with fai because stoke wanted to give you end of season contract, they didn’t want you long term either Martin! And if you were soooo honoured to accept fai job why the week meetings with Prem clubs???
ONeill is League 2, ODonoghue is Premier League. Irish boss turning into a bit of a clown…
Sick of the FAI not giving two shits about Irish football. I am sick off accepting second best. We DO have good, decent footballers. We need a good decent manager to instill a bit of confidence back into Irish football. A manager who is not afraid of playing football, a man that will trust young talent. And let’s stop judging ourselves by how many players play in the premiership or championship….English football knowledge is massively overrated over here.
@diarmuid mccarthy: I agree with a lot of what you say but do we have any decent footballers? Really? How many get their game regularly and / or play at the highest level in the Premiership or the Champions League? None really. We are third division at best.
@Sean: sorry Sean but your doing it again….English divisional football is not the be all and end all. Coaching standards in England are dire! Hendrick, Brady, McCarthy, Coleman, Duffy, Long, Arter, K Long, McClean, Maguire, Hogan, Hourihan, Ward, Hoolahan (did you see his cameo v Chelsea?? Unbelievable!) Meyler, Clarke, Rice, Doherty……these are all good decent footballers who can be molded by a good coach into a hard to beat team who can keep the ball and their shape….it’s a better group than NI have, better than the Danes (minus Erickson), a million times better than Georgia….and yet we struggle through terrible coaching
@diarmuid mccarthy: Wes Hoolahan is 35 and played for Livingston, Blackpool and currently Norwich I believe. He is not the messiah. He is a decent player who hasn’t had the breaks is one argument that I happen to agree with but who would he pass to? The rest of the players you named are for the most part bit-part journeymen that hover on the periphery of bit-part journeymen teams. England is not the be-all and end-all it is true. The English premierships best teams now have very few English or Irish players.
@Sean: those players are more than journey men. And the fact that terrible English coaching has not got the best out of them is the point. But the MAIN point is, most of our European neighbours ranked in or around us have similar or worse groups for the most part and IMO opinion, a good coach would get great results from them. Hoolahan is the player who proves my theory…even at Shels he was a bit part player at times but he was head and shoulders above everyone. David O’Leary summed up the Irish / English attitude to footballers when he said ‘ he’s good but just not big or athletic enough for the premiership’ about Stephen mcphail after he had torn an extremely good Roma team apart in Rome scoring two goals. No emphasis on helping the talent flourish, just his size
@diarmuid mccarthy: actually that might have been Lazio but the point stands….coaches on these isles do not have a clue what to do with skilled technical midfielders…apart from that lad the COYBIG brigade hate, Brian Kerr. People on these isles will pick a Gerard / Lampard type over a Scholes 90% of the time cos they haven’t a clue.
@diarmuid mccarthy: Brian Kerr got his chance and although he may feel he was shafted before his time it didn’t look as if he was having any more success than this predecessor or successor at turning donkeys into racehorses.
@Sean: Donkeys? Good man.
@diarmuid mccarthy: not to be taken literally. it’s a metaphor.
Well done Tony, professional as ever. Martin O’Neill needs to come down off his high horse and learn a bit of manners. Arrogant man.
I think O’Neill has done a great job as Irish manager and exceeded expectation.
His treatment of Tony O Donoghue over multiple interviews has been disgraceful. Petulant responses to very reasonable questions that soccer fans want to know. Childish behaviour.
The difference when dealing with the media between JoeS and MatinON is telling: missing opportunity and childish stuff from MON
@Barry O’Rourke: Agree, JoeS is a gent, always answers questions put to him, no bullshit just straight talking and does,nt run away when the heat comes on.He is trying to bully Tony ODonoghue but he knows now that Tony won,t stop asking the questions i as a fan want answers to.When you stand up to bullies they normally run away.Good on ya Tony, i would say most fans are with you, don,t let that git get the better of you
Martin O Neill should be ashamed of himself as he is an overpaid manager and is grumpy because he cannot get a premiership job and I doubt he was offered the Stoke job. He took the Irish job when he could not do any better. Why didn’t he retire as he is 65 but of course the Irish job is a handy gig with no pressure as expectations are low amongst the general public.
Awkward Waffle.
Totally disrespectful. He is talking to the nation here as national team manager , it is not some club. Grow up, you sound like a fool.
for me Martin untouchable o neill can go and do one.Once again acting like a total bellend.Ignorant and arrogant that man is.Well done Tony O D
Martin o Neill 4 o Donohue 0
@Tony Mcgrath: from the comments on here most people appear to have counted it as a second own goal by MON. On a positive note. 2-0 down is still better than the Denmark result.
MON has a poor side to deal with how many of this team are playing premiership every week? .So why kick a man when he is trying his best perhaps O Donoughue should just p… off and let them the guy get on with his job . It is the same old story when you are playing badly the press will hound you and then when goals are being scored you are great you can’t win in this game . Well done to Martin and your team .
International football is terrible anyway so I don’t really care if we qualify or not to be honest.
I think it is RTE’s interviewer who is at fault, remember Staunton???
This made me cringe!! Seriously get over it O’Neill. Comes across sooo badly. That’s not the way a manager should behave
Something must have happened behind the scenes with these 2 I can’t see them conducting another interview after that !!
O Neill is turning into a right arsehole!
O Neill is a coward just like his assistant
What we need is Brian Kerr in the youth set up Delaney out and Niall Quinn in and the country will produce players and we will have somebody that has a business head and involved in football to now how to run the FAI
Didn’t realise he was such a dick!
Who did we get in the draw anyway never mind the shite??
what a sensitive, precious, angry little man child. two more years of listening to this bitterness. Great
Tony O’Donoghue is a typical new age reporter who feeds on controversy. All he does is ask questions that he knows he will get a bad reaction to. Martin clearly has no time for him and I agree with Martin. O’Neill is s really good manager. The squad love him and play passionately for him because of that. I’m glad that Martin calls him on his BS. Fair play O’Neill, glad you signed up again.
Irish fans are bi polar
TO’D is great Irish soccer man to his core and MO’N should grow up and pick on some male appendage like Dunphy to b rude to
O neill is an awful tool
A bitter little man
There really is 2 of them at it here. TOD starts it off by bringing up the loss to Denmark right before the interview and continues by asking MON about how he felt about past criticism, which he really has no reason to bring up. MON comes off worst but only because he rises to the dig. 2 of them at it but TOD starts for no reason.
Good God ToD didn’t mention Wes once today. If the truth be know ToD is given those shit stirrer questions by the a holes on the panel of rte before he interviews O’Neill after the matches that’s why O’ Neill gets the hump.
day one of his new contract
sick of him. one moany C.
Quite arrogant and rude by O Neill in the interview. Obviously TOD hit on a few sore points with him. Yesterday’s man in his way of thinking and managing the team. You could see he was seething with anger and a how dare you attitude. Clown
Tony should give him as good as he gets. Arrogant f##ker
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Tod was well aware that re rattled mon before interviewing him .it’s typical old Rte mon is a good manager with an average team .he did well with them .of course the blood hounds sniff blood in Rte ..fake news
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Sign of the times………Hook s programme on New Stalk is pre~recorded and O Neill explains the Stoke story from a hermetically sealed room in IFA sorry FAI HQ……heroes led by donkeys come to mind……
I made my comet earlier but here is a smart of what I said .poor interview f t om tod .he set up mon to lose it .typical old tired Rte .typical