The RTE presenter quit the GAA show a year ago in a shock move, but he insists he has no regrets.
Des, 64, said: “I felt The Sunday Game was broken. Initially they’d show one game, then they started showing two.READ MORE: Ireland weather: November forecast in full as Met Eireann warns of one woeful week before U-turn“They might say something really interesting and there’s an obvious follow-on question and I’m being told in my ear ‘move on, we have to move on to the next match.
And he opens up about the drowning accident that claimed the lives of his father’s first wife and two of their four children. He revealed: “It wasn’t spoken about – I now realise that was because my father wanted us brought up as one family. He recounted how as a cub reporter he met two journalists who had covered the tragedy, and one told him his dad had been drinking whiskey as the recovery operation unfolded.