Downbeat Jimmy Barry-Murphy ‘can’t wait for next year’

“I can’t wait for next year.” Jimmy Barry-Murphy might have said the words but there was little enthusiasm or defiance in his tone when he made the vow.

Speaking to the media, he revealed that he intends seeing out the final year of his two-year extension in this his second spell as manager.

But his delivery seemed to betray the language he was using. “I believe there’s a great future for the Cork players,” he uttered stony-faced. “I’ll leave it at what I said there now.”