McCarthy: With hindsight, I wouldn’t have taken on Cork hurling post

Gerald McCarthy said he would never have taken the reins of the Cork senior hurling team seven years ago had he known the drama that lay ahead.

In a TG4 Laochra Gael programme to be screened next month, an emotional McCarthy said no hurling man deserved the death threat he received in March 2009. That December, a 30-year-old was handed a one-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to issuing the vile threat.

However, McCarthy claims there were earlier attempts to colour the malicious phone-call as an easy way out for him as manager. He also believes the GPA were one of the factors behind the difficulties he had with the players when he was re-appointed in late 2008.