Sportspeople: Be careful what you wish for

THEY say you shouldn’t write anything online you wouldn’t like to see on the front page of the New York Times the next morning.

MJ Tierney has a media degree and though he didn’t see his one-word tweet emblazoned across the famous broad sheets of the ‘Gray Old Lady’ on Monday morning, he will certainly have learned a few more lessons about how this industry works in the past seven days.

The talented Laois senior footballer was dropped from the county’s starting XV as the side prepared to face Dublin on Sunday afternoon.