Tomás Mulcahy and Larry Tompkins have called on the Cork County Board to reinstate the jettisoned tradition of club champions nominating county captains.

GLEN ROVERS and Cork stalwart Connie Buckley, who died earlier in the week, was the Rebel captain for the first of the four-in-a-row hurling sequence of 1941-’44.

IT’S BEEN a tough week for the greats. John Updike passed away a few days ago at the age of 76.

THE GAA is optimistic that the Government is prepared to give formal recognition to the game of hurling by grant-aiding it as a separate entity from Gaelic football.