The Cork hurlers may have struggled to get goals last season, but their county board has, of late, developed a happy knack of hitting the target.

Munster Rugby’s loss is Cork GAA’s gain as Aidan O’Connell joins the latter organisation as their first ever high-performance manager.

Brian Hartnett is your quintessential late bloomer.

WITH roles in prolific TV dramas like Taken Down and Charlie, Cork actor Gavin O’Connor is having a successful career. However he also has a passion for writing, and his first novel, Mojo, was a labour of love. “I sat down one day on the good advice of a friend of mine and it just poured out of me. I finished it pretty quickly. It’s about a boy band who reunite 10 years and 10lbs too late only to be double-crossed by their ex-manager and record company. There was so much comedy to mine from that set-up too,” he says.

Unlike a fortnight ago when the Cork hurlers and footballers were forced to line out at Croke Park on separate days, common sense, thankfully, has prevailed this weekend. Two Cork teams playing back-to-back at the one venue on the same day. Scheduling can be rather simple when done right.

In the wake of a call for Cork hurling manager John Meyler to resign, county board chairperson Tracey Kennedy has said she will not be asking anyone to step down, adding that no decision will be taken on who oversees the Cork hurlers in 2020 until the appointment of the county’s first high-performance manager is finalised.

Cork GAA has been in the national news over the past few months, the majority of the headlines reflecting negatively on the county.

Clubs in Cork are furious that senior inter-county hurlers were not available for league games last Sunday, one week after the conclusion of Cork’s Allianz NHL campaign.

If you were a Cork club delegate going to tonight’s annual GAA convention at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, what questions would you ask based on the revelations in yesterday’s Irish Examiner?

It’s something of an understatement to suggest the early summer optimism surrounding the Cork footballers was well and truly extinguished by Kerry just two weeks ago.

The Cork hurlers have suffered a serious blow with the loss of star forward Alan Cadogan to a knee injury for the rest of the intercounty season.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh may not be available for GAA action until Cork hurlers’ Munster SHC Round 1 game against Clare.

Further experimentation, further opportunity to impress.

Eoin Cadogan was back training with Cork last night - but with a hurley and sliotar, not a football - confirming his decision to switch codes and commit to the Cork hurlers in 2018.

There was a time, not so long ago, that Darren Sweetnam was questioning whether he had made the right move in forsaking an inter-county career with the Cork hurlers for the pipedream of professional sport.

The five key issues awaiting the new Cork coach.

Cork had lost senior star Darragh Fitzgibbon to a straight red card moments beforehand and were trailing by two points, facing the wind, before pulling out that dramatic win.

Peadar Healy’s failed request to have club championship games called off this weekend has not soured relations between the Cork football management and the county board, according to Ger Lane.

Met the proverbial — and in this case corporeal — man in the street the day before the league quarter-finals. The man in the street in question is a keen punter, often to be espied going in and out of his local Ladbrokes.

Following their shock Allianz League defeat to Clare in Ennis at the weekend, the Cork senior football management met for a crisis meeting at a Cork city hotel on Monday evening.

Cork hurling manager Kieran Kingston has secured the services of high-performance expert Gary Keegan for the Rebel hurlers, sources have confirmed.

The Cork hurlers’ temporary adoption of the jersey worn by the county 100 years ago is part of a documentary being made for TG4 by Fócas Films about the Rebel colours, called An Fhuil agus Bindealán (The Blood and Bandage).

The late, great Johnny Clifford had a handy expression for occasions like these.

Members of the Cork County Board executive “made representations” to GAA top-brass earlier this summer to synchronise fixtures involving the county’s hurling and football teams.

The GAA line you’ve heard and seen all summer is a simple one.

Donal O’Sullivan is unsure where to begin.

Alan Cadogan will not feature for the Cork senior footballers in 2015, having chosen to focus on hurling next season.

I left Dublin too late last Thursday and had to hare it down the motorway to get to CIT in time, writes Dónal Óg Cusack.

Former Cork midfielder Nicholas Murphy does not feel that too much can be read into the Rebels’ narrow victory over Tipperary on Saturday evening.

The same day the Cork hurlers played their last game under Denis Walsh, the Limerick footballers met Offaly in the curtain-raiser in the Gaelic Grounds.

Cork dual player Damien Cahalane could be instructed by his club St Finbarr’s to train with them in the lead-up to inter-county games as a result of the scheduling of a county SHC tie.

Not one Cork club expressed reservations over the six-day turnaround for their inter-county players.