Cavanagh shrugs off Brolly criticism

Sean Cavanagh has brushed off the latest criticism of him by RTÉ pundit Joe Brolly who accused the Tyrone player of dragging down would-be defenders following yesterday’s Ulster SFC defeat to Monaghan in Clones.

Cavanagh was to the fore as Tyrone sought to claw back a five-point deficit in the closing stages of the qualifier, bursting forward repeatedly, though Brolly suggested he was engineering frees by dragging would-be tacklers to the ground.

The former Derry player was scathing in his criticism of Cavanagh last year after the Moy player pulled Monaghan’s Conor McManus to the ground when through on a goal at a critical point of an All-Ireland quarter-final.