Jim McGuinness: Sadly I must wash some dirty linen in public ...

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For the same reason that he kicked Cassidy off the squad trip that year. Hypocrisy.

He kicked Cassidy off the panel because of hypocrisy?

You will have to explain that!

My understanding is that Cassidy was kicked off the panel because he gave (a relatively innocent) insight into what went on within the squad, and as such was deemed to have broken some sort of confidence?

Jim McGuinness is now airing an issue on a national stage which would probably be better kept within Donegal - by publcising it he has cast a light on issues that reflect badly on the County - as the headline says, airs dirty linen in public.

In light of that, I would have thought that it could be argued that McGuinness was being inconsistent in his approach, or as Shane has alluded to, hypocritical. It was why I posed the question originally as to what Cassidy's thoughts on that headline might be.

But its almost a year since the holiday in question. McGuinness, according to his article, exhausted all other avenues to no avail. Had the county board done as they should have done before now, he wouldn't have written the article. He has been writing for the Times since May or so, and has been on tv all summer, and never mentioned a word. Neither did anyone else.

Cassidy, on the other hand, went behind his back and spilled the beans on what was taking place within the camp. Now you can make an argument that McGuinness overreacted given what was actually put in the book (Brian Dawkins stuff aside), but that is beside the point. There was no need for Cassidy to "air dirty linen" at all. McGuinness, on the other hand, acted out of frustration on behalf of himself and six others.

They're not equivalent at all.

You'd have to ask why he's raising the issue 12 months later when he could have done it in the winter of 2014. He absolutely loves the spotlight. If he was an Ice-cream he'd lick himself (maybe J70 would do it for him)

McGuinness has an ego the size of a small country, he was famous for that more than his football ability back in his playing days, but most successful people are ego maniacs, it goes with the territory. He now has a book to sell so he'll do anything for some attention. Dirty stories like this will work wonders for his profile/book sales

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I doubt if McGuinness will tell it all or he'd be booted off his TV slots I'd say!