Cork’s heroes of ’06 still await medals

Limerick’s win over Tipperary last Sunday means that manager John Allen has a chance to add a third Munster SHC title to his coaching CV, but amazingly the members of the last side he led to provincial glory are still waiting to be presented with their medals.

Conor Cusack, a member of the 2006 Cork hurling team, wrote on Twitter earlier this week that the players are waiting for that year’s medals. Contact with various panellists has confirmed, despite Allen’s efforts on behalf of the panel to get the medals presented in the interim, that they still don’t have them.

“What normally happens is that the Munster Council get the medals made,” said Munster Council PRO Ed Donnelly, “24 or 26 or whatever and then more if the county requests them, and they are then passed on.