Personality clashes at core of Cork’s latest ‘industrial’ row

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?”

A second major dispute leading to a possible withdrawal of players less than nine months after the last one ended has the potential to be far more damaging than the first conflict. Hopefully it won’t come to that. While the major personalities are the same, the genesis of this latest standoff is different to the last one.

Last year the dispute was about principle, this year it is about personality.