The RTE statement announcing Des Cahill’s exit from RTE’s The Sunday Game chair came packaged with a neat bow.
After 15 years anchoring the programme at the weekends, Cahill said he simply wants to attend live games again.
Then Joe Brolly – cut from his pundit’s role with RTE in 2019 –tweeted out a link to comments made by Cahill in June when he admitted he “used to enjoy making The Sunday Game a lot more”.