New Cork hurling strike on the cards
- Eamon Horan reports that the Cork hurling squad have confirmed they will not play under newly re-appointed manager Gerald McCarthy
- GAA President Nickey Brennan says the growing crisis in Cork is disappointing but the Croke Park will not be getting involved in what is a 'local issue'.
- Tony Leen, sports editor of The Irish Examiner, tells Michael Corcoran that the only resolution he can see to the current unrest is mass retirements from the Cork hurling panel.
The County hurling squad are once again at loggerheads with the county board, after Ben O'Connor confirmed that the entire playing squad will not play under manager Gerald McCarthy.
O'Connor has laid the blame for the second stand-off this year firmly at the door of the County Board.
The Rebels' skipper described the process of appointing the manager as 'farcical' and a set up for the players who had gained concessions to be part of the selection process in their strike action earlier this year.
Its alleged the two player representatives went to a meeting of the selection committee to choose a manager, only for the five other county board representatives to propose that McCarthy be re-appointed for another two years, with no-one else even mentioned.
'This panel are ready to go the whole distance, we're ready to pull out, tell them to work away next year,' O'Connor told the Irish Examiner.
'If there's a new management team after that, and if we're wanted back again, then no bother, but as it stands, we're having nothing to do with the current set-up.'
O'Connor has also claimed that younger players had received unwelcome phone calls advising then to return to the panel or 'it would not look good for them for the future'.
GAA president Nicky Brennan has expressed his disappointment with the news, but confirmed that Croke Park would not get involved in trying to find a resolution to the situation.
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