Even the best comedians will do sets in little comedy clubs or at backroom open mics while they're writing material for their next tour to see what works. Failure is, after all, the first step to success.
I'd leave the people at the next table in the cafe alone though. They're no there for some random guys inner monologue.
Either he thought that if it hadn’t come out while he was Dublin manager, it never would, or he thought that it would come out and no one would care.
That Gavin and FF got so caught out by it, and just completely failed to address it properly at all is mental though. They could have sorted it so easily and kept Jim in the race.