Sean Quigley has taken issue with Jim McGuinness over "patronising" remarks he made about Fermanagh this week.
Writing in the Irish Times on Tuesday, the former Donegal All-Ireland winning manager suggested that Fermanagh were happy to come within eight points of Dublin in last Sunday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final, adding that he had witnessed players "hugging their family and friends" after the gallant defeat.
"It's a bit patronising because if I can recall one of the last All-Ireland quarter-finals that Jim McGuinness was involved in (against Mayo in 2013) they got beaten by 16 or 17 points," the Fermanagh full forward said at the launch of the new licensed GAA MD match football yesterday.
"So it's a wee bit patronising coming from him.
"And the fact that he's a Donegal man, he's not 100 miles away from Fermanagh, it's a bit disappointing really. He needed to realise that we were going up with no-one giving us a hope, the only people that believed in us were the Fermanagh fans and the management and the players.
"I just think the Fermanagh fans, the sense of pride that they had in us, after seeing the way we played against the best team in the country, the fact that we thwarted them right to the end. It was a credit to ourselves and a credit to our supporters that they stuck by us.
"I think it has been talked up that we were celebrating getting beaten by eight points instead of 80 points. Absolutely not, we were celebrating the fact that we got promotion, we got a great run in the championship and reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals.
"I guarantee you, if you'd predicted that at the start of the year to Jim McGuinness, he'd have laughed at you."
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