'If this becomes acceptable then it's not good for me'
July 22, 2016
Galway manager Micheal Donoghue and selector Francis Forde who is manager of St. Rynagh's in Offaly.
©INPHO/James Crombie.
Galway hurling selector Francis Forde has condemned the criticism levelled at the Tribesmen in the wake of their Leinster final loss to Kilkenny.
Forde, who is a teacher at St Raphael's College in Loughrea, fears the "personal attacks" Micheal Donoghue and his team were subjected to will become acceptable in society.
"If it's acceptable in a local or national paper to absolutely castigate a bunch of lads then how do you go into a classroom as a secondary school teacher and say you can't say this about people on social media," he said in the Galway Independent.
"As a secondary teacher myself, we cover things like bullying all the time in school. If this becomes acceptable in society as the norm in a local or national newspaper, radio, TV just to sensationalise things or maybe justify someone's position in the job, then for society that's not good for me. That's what I would have a big issue with actually the personal attacks on people," the Turloughmore man added.
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