Joe Canning announced his retirement from inter-county hurling yesterday and Galway is in mourning.

Marty Morrissey and Davy Fitzgerald weighed in on the news on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show this morning, but they were overshadowed by the arrival of Michael D. Higgins.

The President came armed with a poem he'd written about the Galway hurler that bordered on the erotic!

Catch the President's poetry recital by pressing the Play button above.