Players ‘not instructed’ to not attend funeral

DONAL Óg Cusack has disputed Gerald McCarthy’s allegation that senior Cork players instructed fellow panellists not to attend the funeral of the then Cork manager’s mother.

When McCarthy resigned as Cork boss in March he suggested in his resignation statement that Cork players had been told not to go the funeral, but Cusack says in his autobiography that that was not the case.

“If we all went to the funeral it would be inflammatory and would appear cynical.