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

IT was 1984, centenary year of the GAA, and in Kilkenny, the land where hurling is the major religion, Ballyhale Shamrocks reigned supreme. Just once in the previous six years (1981), was their authority broken, beaten by The Village, the legendary James Stephens club in the city.

Frank Murphy’s official involvement with the GAA is nearing an end.