‘I haven’t heard a nasty word from anyone’

INCESSANT criticism has been Eddie O’Sullivan’s lot since the World Cup.

Various media have called for his head, the public have jumped aboard the bandwagon. So it must surely have been with a feeling of apprehension that the Irish coach returned to Ireland and went to live again among the people of Co Galway?.

“I can honestly say that I haven’t heard a nasty word from anyone”, he declared. “That wasn’t just the case around Galway, rather it was the reaction I got whether I was in Belfast, Limerick, Cork or Dublin. People said hard luck and good luck for the Six Nations. They were forgiving and I appreciate that even though I know they had an understandable level of expectation and we let them down very badly.