Cork board motion on hurling job wins vote

THE Cork County Board executive motion to appoint three executive members and three club delegates to select the county’s next senior hurling manager was last night rubber-stamped by the delegates at a board meeting. The motion received 70 votes and defeated five other motions that were proposed on the night by various clubs.

The closest challenger to the executive motion was by the Passage club, which received 52 votes for their proposal that specified county chairman Jerry O’Sullivan and board PRO Ger Lane would sit on the appointments committee along with three club delegates.

A request from Passage club delegate Matt Aherne for a second vote to be taken with the four lowest motions being eliminated was turned down by O’Sullivan. Aherne criticised that decision as ‘totally undemocratic’ and insisted that procedures as used in a political election should have come into play.