The Tyrone football management and squad have said they will continue their boycott of RTÉ.
Tyrone issued a statement earlier today outlining the reasons for its refusal to grant interviews to RTÉ.
RTÉ subsequently issued its own statement.
Both statements can be read below.
Tyrone play Dublin in the All-Ireland Football Championship quarter-finals in Croke Park on Saturday.
Tyrone management and players statement:
"A number of weeks ago the Senior Football Manager in conjunction with several other GAA managers wrote a letter marked Private and Confidential to two senior people within the RTÉ organisation.
"In this letter Mickey Harte expressed his own and a number of other managers' concern at the disproportionate absence of Brian Carthy from his role as a radio commentator. The contents of the letter made their way into the public domain and the managers' concerned can categorically state that they were not the source of that leak.
"Due to the portrayal of the said letter, at least one other broadcaster within the organisation acted in a most insensitive manner in the choice of their programme dialogue in a morning radio show soon after.
"Inappropriate references to the fact that the Tyrone manager Mickey Harte was associated with the Dali Lama conference in Limerick and the choice of the song "Pretty Little Girl from Omagh" will give you an indication of the complete lack of sensitivity the presenter in question afforded the Harte family and Michaela's husband John McAreavey, in what remains for them a very difficult time.
"We hope that this statement clarifies for the general public why Mickey Harte, his management team and the players have chosen not to co-operate with RTÉ at this time.
"Interviews with all other media outlets will continue as before."
RTÉ statement:
"RTÉ Radio 1’s John Murray Show presents, each morning, a satirical and humorous synopsis of the day’s big news stories. On June 9 the programme covered a widely reported controversy involving Mickey Harte.
"RTÉ understands and appreciates that the item offended Mr Harte. It is never RTÉ's intention to knowingly offend any individual, and RTÉ sincerely regrets any offence caused. This sincere regret was immediately and personally communicated to Mr Harte by RTÉ management.
"RTÉ wishes to clarify that it did not leak the contents of the letter referred to in today's statement by the Tyrone GAA Senior Football Management and Players. RTÉ treated the correspondence as private and confidential, and was mindful of the need for discretion in all public statements it was called upon to make.
"It is RTÉ’s hope that, in the public interest of all those who follow gaelic games, the matter can be resolved."
