I turned down Jimmy invite to return

Kevin Cassidy has revealed he turned down an invitation by Jim McGuinness to re-join the Donegal panel earlier this year.

I turned down Jimmy invite to return

In an exclusive interview with Cassidy and Conor Mortimer in tomorrow’s Weekend Sport section of the Irish Examiner, the Gweedore man recounts how McGuinness met him at his Letterkenny school at Easter where they had what Cassidy, 31, described as “a very civilised conversation, there were no heated moments”.

It was the first time the pair had sat down together since Cassidy contributed to the This Is Our Year book, which compelled McGuinness to axe him from the panel, deemingit was a breach of their code of conduct.

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