Colm O'Rourke has ruled himself out of the running for the vacant Meath job.
The Royals legend has been strongly linked with the role in recent days following Andy McEntee's resignation last week.
But speaking on The Sunday Game on RTE Two, the two-time All-Ireland winner revealed he isn't interested in the role as he hit out at the abuse aimed at McEntee.
He said: "I'm involved in club management. I'm very happy in club management and I have been for quite awhile.
"This isn't something new this sort of speculation like I did actually go for the Meath job on three occasions in the past and even somebody as stupid as I am would give it a hint that when you're told no on three occasions, I think that should put it to bed.
"My beautiful wife Patricia has a very negative view towards managing the county team and with good reason when you see the sort of upshot from Andy McEntee going and the social media abuse that has taken place.
"I think a lot of people would stand back and say is this the sort of trend that we want to go in Gaelic football that people who put in enormous time at their own expense, it's not like Pep Guardiola getting €15million a year, and then being subjected to that sort of thing by unnamed people.
"I can't understand in a society how we can allow people to abuse others without having given their name and address and everything else. It's just a shocking indictment of society in general."
But O'Rourke went on to say he doesn't believe it would be that hard to unite Meath football.
He added: "I think it wouldn't be that difficult to get a very unified front. There's very little division in Meath football.
"We have a strong club structure. I don't know whether we have the outstanding players to win All-Irelands but I think certainly there could be improvement."
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