Cork county hurling team

Yeah, that's an issue.

But Munster, since the Round Robin was brought in in 2018, it was my first year as manager of the Cork Hurling Team, the Munster counties have embraced it and it's really, really competitive.

And you couldn't say any year what team is coming out of Munster.

You couldn't determine what team is coming out.

Is that a fair reflection?

It probably would be because, you see, Cork and Teep were really on a high at that time.

They were really good.

And I suppose whether Phyllis felt that the... you know, definitely they'd go to the training and they'd give it everything they had, you know, but still, you were coming up against great opposition.

And I remember the Clare Champion saying the following day that... to the Mini All-Ireland, the match between Bearfield and Airoa.

I think in order to take three times to decide it, definitely two.

they'd be great rivals anyway oh they would they would in those days at county level you'd come across some queer defenders from Kilkenny and Cork and Tate and Limerick will you name a few of the lads you found that found you difficult

they were all difficult they were all difficult well I'd say I'd say Pat Fitzgerald of Cork was one of the best wing backs yes and Mick Burns and Nida Blondie Mick You know, they were really good.

He defines a whole...

It does feel like he defines the whole Cork Hurling before, say, that great team in the 70s comes along with JBM, as you're saying.

He's just...

I don't know.

You kind of...

Because obviously, I know what you're saying.

Obviously, Cork Hurling has a kind of a perception and it's, it's, you know, but it's, it's really hard to, he just embodies everything that Cork Harlan's about at its best.

So like, as long as there's Cork Harlan, there's going to be Christy Ring.

He's been involved helping out with Down, On and Off for a number of years.

Obviously, he was a selector twice with the Cork Senior set up here in Kingston.

You know, he's been in for that job before.

I think he'd be a good appointment.

Barca leaded the same a couple of years ago in a Munster final.

Now, it was different in the case of Cersei's or Cork.

But, you know, they really went at them physically.

They're a big football team as well, a four-mile, it would be the Nair football.

so you know it's just it's the quality sorry Matthew Tarpey is the name I was looking for Matthew missed so much through injury to see him back and I'd seen him training and you know he's really put in

a big shift got a bad injury not

a bad injury great to see him back and had a fabulous game the last day And, you know, look at the defensive, Killian Trares, you know, Dahey, obviously, Jamie Holland, captain, wing-back, going really well, Tom Cork, midfield, you know.

So, look, that team will get confidence from that.

Is this a worrying one for the Cork hurlers going forward in 27, paired with that Gerry Hussey no longer being in with the team for 27? It's yet to come out.

Was that a decision made by Gerry, the psychologist, of course, in case you don't know him? with the team, or was it a decision, made by Ben, if it was a decision, made by jury, you'd have to wonder, what type of dressing room, or what type of camp is, if two lads have left, before we kind of get underway, uh, before the 27th season, I know, at the end of that Cork statement, further details, related to the management, and coaching arrangements, for the inter-county teams, that's going to be confirmed, at the next meeting, of the county Cork committee, on Tuesday, the 8th of September, so we have that one, to look forward to, uh, Cian O'Neill, enter, is set to be appointed as the new head coach of the Cork Senior Hurlers.

And basically a bit about O'Neill, compared to the Kerry Footballers' background team in the wake of their defeat to Mayo.

He's an interesting one.

Since, you know, 11 or 12 years since they won a senior All-Ireland.

Like, and they talk about Cork.

Now, when Kilkenny were winning All-Irelands, there was none of these, the naysayers visible or in the public eye.

Everyone said everything was great, and it was great.

Mm.

You know? And when you come to think of it, hurling is not in a good state at this moment in time.

I mean, you look at the, you look at the senior, the, the, the marquee people, uh, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork, Wexford, Galway.

You know, they're not burning the bushes.

Um, JD, this is really interesting.

Gaelic Games coach, Kieran O'Neill, has taken a position with the Cork hurlers.

Yes.

So the Kildare native joins Ben O'Connor's backroom team for the next year, at least.

Right, right guy, though.

Uh, Ronan Curran stepped away.

Uh, look, with Cork, it's the biggest famine of their, of their history.

It'll be 22 years next year, so anything that can help-