Diarra adds insult to injury but Andrews focused

THE nation’s supply of asterisks has been seriously depleted in the last 48 hours as reports have differed about the precise content of the inflammatory remark made by France’s Lassana Diarra to Ireland’s Keith Andrews after the final whistle blew in Croke Park on Saturday night.

Suggestions have ranged from “Irish p***k” to “Irish b*****d” with the additional “F**k you, you’re out” thrown in for good measure.

However, informed sources have now told the Irish Examiner that the Real Madrid man actually called the Blackburn Rovers player an “Irish c**t”. The slur provoked an angry response from Andrews while his fellow Dubliner Richard Dunne also became involved in the afters, literally going tete-a-tete with the Frenchman.