Will Cork be remembered as the only team in modern GAA history to exit the Championship without conceding a goal?

WHEN news broke yesterday that Conor Counihan would be staying on as Cork senior football manager, there was a sense of relief, and not just in Cork.

Cork's 2010 All-Ireland winning manager Conor Counihan had ended weeks of speculation by agreeing a new two-year deal with the Cork County Board.

IT’S a certainty that Conor Counihan would never have made it big with the Cork footballers but for Imokilly winning the county football championship for the first time in 1984.

GER LANE didn’t feel the need to go shopping for UN emblazoned body armour for his first meeting with the Cork senior footballers earlier this year.

ONE Friday last summer I was at the TG4 studios in Baile Na hAbhainn to do Seo Spóirt with former All-Ireland winning Cork boss John Allen.

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

PAT BUCKLEY, a former Cork playing colleague from Milford, is one of three selectors named yesterday by Denis Walsh — the others being Pa Finn from St Finbarr’s and Gerry Ryan from the Ballinascarthy club.

KIERAN MULVEY, the man who brokered the peace deal in last year’s Cork GAA dispute, last night admitted he was ‘shocked and taken aback’ at the treatment of former hurling manager Gerald McCarthy.

LABOUR Relations Commission (LRC) chief Kieran Mulvey believes that the protagonists in the current dispute should forget their differences and reach a settlement.

UNCERTAINTY surrounds the proposed peace talks in the Cork GAA dispute, with parties remaining tightlipped since Croke Park offered to intervene on Tuesday evening.

Cork GAA chairman Jerry O'Sullivan urged the striking Cork senior hurlers to return to action by issuing an open letter to the 2008 squad on Wednesday night.

WHEN news reached us here in Australia of another standoff between the Cork hurling panel and the Cork County Board, our immediate reaction was: “what the hell is gone wrong now?”

ANOTHER year, another battle, or war in this instance. The only difference between last year and this is that it is the hurlers and the hurling manager who are in the cross-hairs, whereas it was Teddy Holland, the footballers and as always, a county board input completing the triangle, who were at the centre of the last vortex.

GAA Director-General Paraic Duffy views the actions of the hurlers in Cork and footballers in Donegal as ‘separate issues’ and not part of increasing player power.

Speculation is mounting that Cork's footballers may be sucked into the dispute surrounding the reappointment of Gerald McCarthy as manager of the county's hurlers.

JUST when all seemed sweetness and light within Cork GAA, news emerges of yet another row between the players and the county board, and yet again the knee-jerk reaction from most people I meet is “Ahhh! Another player-power move that must be stopped, at all costs!”.

A new GAA disagreement is brewing after Cork GAA chiefs decided to move the opening round of Senior Football Championship games to the dislike of their club units.

Former Cork football star Conor Counihan has been appointed as manager of the Rebel County's senior football team according to reports.

It's back to action for the Cork hurlers and footballers following a resolution of the protracted 97-day dispute tonight.

The stand-off in Cork GAA looks set to come to a final conclusion tonight.

The Cork GAA County Board Executive have said they have reached agreement with county football manager Teddy Holland regarding his position with the side.

The executive of the Cork County Board is to meet with football manager Teddy Holland later today to discuss his future position, as the long-running players’ dispute stumbles towards a close.

Teddy Holland has broken his silence on the ongoing dispute between Cork GAA players and the County Board over his appointment as Cork Senior football manager.

LARRY TOMPKINS last night ruled himself out of the running to succeed Teddy Holland as Cork football manager.

WELL that was a costly one. Cork GAA Board’s decision to remove the right of a manager to pick his own selectors has ensured one thing — it won’t be repeated elsewhere without paralysing consultation with everybody involved.

THE Cork senior squads last night expressed hope of “a new era of co-operation with the Cork County Board”, following the resolution of their three-month long dispute last night.

After months of bitter disputes, Cork GAA must now lick its wounds and prepare for a perilous season ahead, writes Michael Moynihan.

Labour Relations Commission Chief Executitve Kieran Mulvey has recommended that Teddy Holland and his selectors step down from their positions at the helm of Cork Senior football.

Ninety-five days after the decision of the Cork Senior footballers and hurlers to withdraw their services from inter-county involvement, agreement has finally been reached in the Rebel County, following a meeting of the players and officials last night.

Labour Relations Commission chief executive Kieran Mulvey today suggested to the warring Cork County Board and the players that they should commit to binding arbitration.

DOUBTS have been raised about the procedure used to appoint Teddy Holland as Cork senior football manager in November, with the appointments committee established to find a manager coming under scrutiny.

A solution to the GAA crisis in Cork appears as remote as ever this morning.

“COCK-UP” read the underside of the Rebel fan’s sombrero, where in normal circumstances it would have read “Up Cork”.

A poll in today's Irish Examiner has revealed overwhelming public support for strike action by Cork's hurlers and footballers.

THE old advice about what to do when you find yourself in a hole — stop digging — should resonate loudly with both sides in the humiliating and embarrassing dispute that has divided the GAA in Cork.

MORE than one devoted reader — hello, Frank and Irene Blennerhassett in Youghal — has written to the sports desk bemoaning the absence of this column over the past month.

IT’S THE kind of decisive poll result that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would both kill for right now.

SO the people of Cork have spoken on the GAA dispute that is tearing the county apart.