Backroom boys are vital — JBM

CORK’S new senior hurling manager Jimmy Barry Murphy says his top priority is to get “a strong backroom team” in place ahead of next season.

Barry-Murphy’s return to intercounty management has been welcomed on Leeside, and he said yesterday that it had “never entered my mind” that he might be donning the bainisteoir bib again.

“The first thing is to say how thrilled I am to be back with Cork,” said the Cork legend.