Graham aiming to recant for All-Ireland final loss

DESPITE being one of eight captains invited to Croke Park to launch the 2008 GAA Football Championship yesterday, it came as no surprise that most people wanted to talk to Graham Canty about the 2007 version instead, and the final in particular.

The Cork captain certainly required a thick skin when MC Des Cahill delivered a gag at the expense of the county’s disappointment last September.

The punchline was inadvertently set up by Vodafone Ireland chief executive Charles Butterworth, an Englishman unfamiliar with GAA, who revealed it had taken him some time to figure out what was going on during the game.