Two generations of Glen hurlers gathered around the one table at the Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig last Saturday.

Between 1971 and ‘80, Glen Rovers, St Finbarr’s and Blackrock held near exclusive ownership of the Munster Club SHC title.

Rebel with a cause: Michael Moynihan looks at the life of John Horgan, Cork hurling captain, and Blackrock club legend

Thousands of hurling fans queued for hours in Thurles last evening for the removal of Tipperary hurling great Jimmy Doyle, who passed away suddenly on Monday, aged 76.

Glen Rovers are looking to bridge a generational gap as they bid for another Cork title tomorrow at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Cork County Board chairman Bob Ryan has called on clubs in urban areas to reinvent themselves or run the risk of becoming outdated.

Cork GAA chairman Bob Ryan reiterated his opposition to proposals to change the way 20m frees are taken in hurling and questioned the timing of such a move.

Munster chairman Seán Walsh has welcomed the Hurling Development Committee’s (HDC) proposals to retain the province’s senior championship in its current guise.

Pat Hartigan: Played minor for Limerick when he was just 15 years of age. Hartigan was part of the Limerick side of 1973 — the last from the county to claim the All-Ireland title.

A number of fine sprint performances provided the highlight of the Cork County Senior, Junior and Masters Track & Field championships at the Cork IT track.

THE Cork County Board executive motion to appoint three executive members and three club delegates to select the county’s next senior hurling manager was last night rubber-stamped by the delegates at a board meeting. The motion received 70 votes and defeated five other motions that were proposed on the night by various clubs.

CORK hurling legends Jimmy Barry-Murphy, John Fenton and Denis Coughlan are not expected to be involved in the selection of the county’s next senior hurling manager despite being nominated by two clubs to reprise the roles they filled in selecting Denis Walsh in March 2009.

CORK GAA clubs have been given until August 2 to submit proposals as to what process will be used to select the county’s next senior hurling manager.

THE man’s sport is swimming but, as he was speaking, we were all thinking hurling.

THE appointment process for selecting the next Cork senior hurling manager is expected to be overseen by the county board rather than the three-man independent committee used to select Denis Walsh in March 2009.

“ONE long, beautiful, bountiful labour of love” — the words of retired sports journalist Michael Ellard at a function in Cork yesterday, summing a career extending over four decades with the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo.

A LATE point by Conor Lehane earned Midleton a deserved draw, 0-19 to 2-13, with Glen Rovers in a keenly contested Evening Echo Cork SHC quarter-final at Páirc Ui Chaoimh yesterday.

THERE was never any suggestion of the Cork County Board being negligent in past years in planning for the future of the GAA in the county, according to county secretary Frank Murphy.

THE Cork County Board last night announced that it has completed phase one of the process to develop a Strategic Plan for GAA in the county over the next five years and is envisaging that the plan will be rolled out from next March onwards.

Between hurling and football,I suppose you could say we were very fit, but you had a dilemma to try and pace yourself or play as hard and as long as you could

DENIS WALSH, the new Cork hurling coach, is confident he has both the management skills to handle the group of players who successfully campaigned to have Gerald McCarthy replaced and the coaching expertise which they complained had been lacking.

Denis Walsh was officially unveiled as the new Cork senior hurling manager this afternoon at a media briefing at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

Former Cork dual star Denis Walsh has been chosen as the Rebels' new hurling manager, it was announced tonight.

THE Cork County Board executive last night refused to accept a motion of no-confidence in the executive over their handling of the recent hurling dispute that had been proposed by the Ballyhea GAA Club.

The GAA has confirmed that Denis Coughlan, John Fenton and Jimmy Barry Murphy will form a three-man committee that will make a recommendation to the Cork County Board for the position of Cork senior hurling manager.

They’re tied on 30 All-Ireland titles each, but there’s more at stake at Croke Park tomorrow for Cork and Kilkenny than statistics. Stars of the 70’s, Cork’s Brian Murphy and Kilkenny’s Phil ‘Fan’ Larkin discuss battles past and tomorrow’s semi-final with Diarmuid O’Flynn.

THE hurlers and footballers chosen on the very first All-Star teams 35 years ago will be honoured at a function in Croke Park today, hosted by the GAA and Vodafone.

IT is always an unenviable and invidious exercise to compare teams and players of different eras.

AS another instalment of Gaelic football's greatest rivalry is played out in Croke Park tomorrow, stars of the seventies Kerry's Mickey Ned O'Sullivan and Cork's Kevin Jer O'Sullivan recall some of the magical days from their playing careers.

With three Munster crowns and two All-ireland titles, the period 1995-98 was the golden era of Clare hurling. It could all have happened nearly two decades earlier, however.

Don’t mention the war, we agreed. “I’ll meet on one condition”, laughed Waterford’s Jim Greene.