Ó Cinnéide: Tweets break dressing room omerta

ONE All-Ireland winning captain believes the privacy of the GAA dressing room is sacrosanct.

Kerry’s Dara Ó Cinnéide has authority on both sides of the Twitter debate as a full-time journalist and in yesterday’s Irish Examiner online GAA debate, he insisted: “I have a serious issue with this tweeting from inter-county players entering the public domain.”

On the Monday Morning at the Water Cooler sportsblog, he added: “I accept once it’s out there it’s publishable, but the players should really keep their thoughts to themselves. That should always be a panel’s strength — their secrecy. Omerta, even if it isn’t much use to us in the media. The two spheres have irreconcilable prerogatives and players are crossing the line with their tweeting.”