Brendan Maher defends his club’s role in tweet criticising Michael Ryan

Tipperary captain Brendan Maher has played down a hard-hitting tweet criticising county senior hurling team manager Michael Ryan, which was sent from his club Borris-Ileigh’s official Twitter account over the weekend.

Maher revealed that the sender of the tweet, which was subsequently removed, rang him later to apologise.

Borris-Ileigh drew with Roscrea in the county SHC on Saturday and that result was good enough to seal a spot in the latter stages of the competition.