Donal O'Grady: my Cork stint is done

ALL-IRELAND winning coach Donal O'Grady insisted last night that he had walked away from the Cork hurling job with no regrets.

He rejected overtures from Cork GAA chiefs to remain at the helm for another season, declaring: "my stint is done."

"Everybody associated with the team and the county board knew that when my term was up, I was finished. I wanted to announce it now to give the board an opportunity to do their business in terms of putting a team together for 2005," he states in an interview in today's Irish Examiner.