Give clubs back captain’s call, say Tomás Mulcahy and Larry Tompkins

Tomás Mulcahy and Larry Tompkins have called on the Cork County Board to reinstate the jettisoned tradition of club champions nominating county captains.

It’s eight years since Cork did away with the rule and permitted managers to select their own captains. The 1990 All-Ireland senior winning skippers were nominated by Glen Rovers and Castlehaven after they won their respective county championships the year previous.

Mulcahy and Tompkins were speaking to the Irish Examiner as part of a joint interview for an upcoming 25th anniversary special publication marking the last double All-Ireland triumph.