Derek McGrath: Politician tackled Dan Shanahan about Waterford decisions at a funeral

“Dan tried to tell him, ‘I’m at a funeral here’.”

Waterford hurling manager Derek McGrath has admitted that the criticism he sometimes endures in a county desperate for All-Ireland success can make him “paranoid”.

In a wide-ranging interview with John Fogarty in Saturday’s Irish Examiner, McGrath says he tries to cocoon himself and his players away from criticism, but described how his selector Dan Shanahan was accosted last season.