After last night's unfortunate events Eamon Dunphy spoke to Sean O'Rourke on RTÉ Radio One this morning, apologising again for swearing live on television but adding 'it could have been much worse.'
Dunphy said he made a mistake, and was happy to admit it. However, he added:
It could have been a lot worse. There is a lot of slander when people think nobody is listening. But I am sorry for the language used as there were young children watching and I apologised. We had assumed that we had gone to a break.
The RTÉ pundit went on to say how his slip-up was not comparable in seriousness to the sexist remarks made in the past by Andy Gray and Jeff Stelling or Ron Atkinson's comments about Marcel Desailly, when they thought they weren't being filmed:
I wouldn’t have those thoughts in my head. If you don’t have any of those thoughts in your head, you wouldn’t say it. On the scale of things, it was a venal rather than a mortal sin.
He also went onto the Ray D'Arcy show this morning for a pretty funny interview, which can listen to 30 minutes in below.
In case you missed his apology on air last night, here it is again, in all its cringeworthy glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdF8SzTkzsc
