Players issue plea for unity as strike ends

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.

Both the football and hurling squads will return to training in the coming days following the end of the bitter strike which began in November in a row with board bosses over the selection of team managements.

The row, which rocked the GAA, was eventually settled following the intervention of the chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Kieran Mulvey, who yesterday recommended that Cork GAA football manager Teddy Holland and his selectors step back from their positions.