Counting the cost of Rebel management meltdown

IT was Kevin Heffernan and Mick O’Dwyer who ushered in the era of the manager as we know it today.

The innocent days of men like the legendary Jim ‘Tough’ Barry are long gone.

The flamboyant tailor survived 40 years at the helm of Cork hurling; he saw the McCarthy Cup coming to Leeside on more than a dozen occasions, but there were also long barren spells.