Sheedy completes the Cork selectors' jigsaw

NEW Cork manager Donal O’Grady has named Kilworth’s star Fred Sheedy as the final member of the county senior hurling selection committee.

The manner and speed in which a new selection team has been named increases the hope that the county can quickly recover from any lingering effects of the strike action called by disaffected players last month.

Sheedy will join O'Grady, his former St Finbarr's team-mate John Allen (after the county board changed its policy to allow two from the same club), Donal Collins and the vastly experienced Seán O'Leary at the helm. Collins, the first of the selectors to be named, will represent county champions Blackrock for the coming season, whereas O'Grady and the other three will serve a two-year term.