McDevitt goes off the ball, on the box

THE first thing to say about Eoin McDevitt is that the guy should have his voice insured... if he hasn’t already.

Long-time anchor of the three-hour Off The Ball show, the Dubliner has multiplied the strain on his vocal cords by agreeing to host Setanta’s iTalkSport programme as well as its Allianz League coverage. It is no surprise, an hour in his company flies by.

The voice has been a familiar one ever since 2005 when he assumed the box seat from Ger Gilroy on the nightly sports radio show but the TV thing is only six months old and he has had to adapt.