Davy Fitzgerald pictured as Londis launch their 7th year as lead sponsor of Ireland's Fittest Family at the Old Belvedere Rugby Club in Dublin. Photograph: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Wednesday afternoon in Dublin and Davy Fitzgerald is chatty but guarded.

It is the launch of the latest series of Ireland’s Fittest Family and, speaking at the corresponding event last winter, he got himself into hot water.

A remark that working with his adopted Antrim players and attempting to develop a new playing style was “like teaching someone how to walk again” came back to bite him.

Former Antrim player and manager Terence McNaughton took umbrage and noted the remarks months later when cri

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