Battle-hardened Macroom all out to end 20-year wait

LONG bouts of summer inactivity are now a common trend for club players and, after Macroom’s Cork IFC first round victory over Ballydesmond in May, manager Noel Twomey realised he needed to tackle that problem.

With Fintan Goold and Sean Kiely involved with the county senior football squad, Macroom’s fixtures were set to be stalled and Twomey had to find a way to keep his squad interested over the coming months.

“It’s the biggest problem you have as a manager, trying to keep them interested for three months. So I decided that we’d take a complete break for a month. I told the players go away on holidays, relax and do whatever you want.