THERE WAS A LAOCH TO CONSIDER..

EAMON MCGEE is a bit sheepish about receiving the Laochra Gael treatment but is glad that he went through the process now after rebuffing the producers at the outset.

- BY PAT NOLAN

"Initially I turned it down because, I said before, I have an ego but it only extends so far and I just didn't see myself as a real Laochra Gael when I compared it to previous programmes in terms of Tony Scullion's one, Cass [Kevin Cassidy] and I thought 'Jesus there's no way'. So I turned it down.