Jim McGuinness insists he won't be working with the Galway senior football panel during their upcoming Connacht and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship campaigns.
Mobile phone footage emerged earlier this month of the former All-Ireland winning boss taking a training session with the Tribesmen earlier this month ahead of the resumption of the League but he says that was very much a one off.
"To answer the question, I'm not involved with Galway," McGuinness told Sky Sports'Inside The Game show. "I'm a good friend with Pádraic, we spent a couple of years together down in Tralee. He's a really good fella, he's a really good football guy.
"We've always stayed in contact. He asked me to come down and do a session. I was delighted to do that for him, and that really was it. If he wanted to do something again, I've been in and out with Donegal any chance I've had as well.
"So that's all there was to it. I think it was just the fact that somebody had filmed it made it a bigger story than it was.
"I was standing on the pitch in Tuam with Pádraic Joyce, and literally the session had finished five minutes and there were reporters ringing from Dublin to try and get the heads-up on what was going on! But that's the world we live in. That's social media. And it doesn't help when you've got somebody behind the goals filming it.
"But if you're being put up there as having fellas up trees in Kerry and filming training sessions, you can't be too hard on somebody behind the goals in Tuam."
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