Watch: Donal Óg Cusack blasts Cork GAA officials in savage Sunday Game attack

No holding back

Donal Óg Cusack is a man who is never afraid to show his true colours and tonight he has launched a few missiles on GAA officials on Leeside. The Rebels were beaten today by Galway in the All-Ireland hurling Q-final and on tonight's Sunday Game the former Cork All-Ireland winner launched a scathing attack on the structures of the county's GAA. He described Jimmy Barry Murphy as a substitute teacher, while he also referred to long serving Cork county board secretary Frank Murphy as 'the don of GAA'.

"He (JBM) reminds me of a substitute school teacher in a poor school that is doing his best, the pupils are doing their best but the principal and the school are just a bad school."

The former All-Star then went on to blast a number of unnamed GAA officials for their lack of knowledge of what it takes to win at the very top level of sport in Ireland presently.

'I think there is a group of people around Frank, actually a group of stooges and yes men and I'm not even sure they are even telling Frank how bad things are that need to take serious responsibility.'

The Cloyne clubman also took aim at Cork GAA clubs for their failure to bring up issues with the county executive,

'There is third group responsible and that is the clubs. The clubs are not doing what they should be responsible for doing and holding the county board to task. They remind me of schoolchildren who are lying in bed and hoping that someone will come along and call them in case they are going to be late for school. They are actually asleep in Rome while Rome burns.' 'They know as much about serious level sport as I know about the sleeping habits of the Ayatollah.'

Cusack began the discussion by producing a graphic that highlighted the lack of success in Cork compared to their Munster rivals in recent years. You can watch the full piece below and we really do feel for poor Henry Shefflin who is visibly squirming during the tirade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2_ww2Bme_g