Today’s Hospital Pass, featuring Darran O’Sullivan, Ben Brosnan and Marty Morrissey, is all about Twitter and features an image that might stick with you for some time.
From somewhat humble beginnings when only a few hardy souls braved the social networking minefield that was Twitter, the GAA has now fully embraced it to the extent that every inter-county panel has at least five or six players tweeting pictures of what they had to eat or obliging the seemingly endless requests from fans to “Please just give us an aul RT there mate”.
One of those hardy souls that paved the way for his inter-county contemporaries in the beginning was lightning-quick Kerry forward Darran O’Sullivan and as a veteran of the movement, he should know by now that anything you post on the site can come back and bite you on the ass.
Still, he probably wasn’t expecting much in the way of negative feedback when he tweeted earlier on today about his desire to be outside in a mankini in this glorious, yet bound to be short-lived spell of weather we’ve been having lately. In all fairness, who wouldn’t?
Fellow Twitter fanatic and Wexford forward Ben Brosnan wasn’t going to let him get away with such a throwaway remark, however, and after telling O’Sullivan just how disturbing such an image was, he proceeded to give everyone else an idea of the hilarious yet slightly off-putting image that he had built up in his mind.
Pic via Twitter/Ben Brosnan
Some amusing photoshop work from Ben there, but we’re intrigued by the body attached to O’Sullivan’s head in the picture. It’s certainly not hairy enough to be Borat and although pictures of fellas in mankini are unfortunately all too common these days, the pasty skin colour leads us to suggest that it could be Irish.
So does it belong to Ben himself perhaps? Or one of his Wexford team mates? Maybe even the legendary adult film star Greg Jacob, who hails from the same neck of the woods. Actually, on second thought, maybe we don’t want to know.
Marty’s down with the kids
Speaking of all things Twitter, if there’s a funnier GAA account out there at the moment than the Marty Morrissey parody account, then we haven’t seen it.
The genius behind it occasionally steps out of line and has previously attracted the ire of RTE chiefs for tweets of a lewd nature (have a look back for his account of a fictional holiday with Pat Spillane and you’ll get the picture), so it was good to read this morning that the man with most reason to take offence from the whole thing finds it absolutely hilarious.
“Some of the tweets are hilarious. You’d have to laugh at it,” the great man himself, Marty Morrissey, told The Irish Sun.
“I don’t know who is behind them, some lad from Tyrone I think, but he has a great sense of humour.
“I can see the funny side. I suppose I’d better say I wish he’d stop.”
Still, we can’t help but think that Marty might indeed be the man behind the account, is using it as a platform to reveal his previously unheralded devilish sense of humour and is using his own offical account, which he opened up in March, as a way of putting people off the scent.
A bizarre theory perhaps, but we wouldn’t put it past him.
