Cork hurling must carry on the JBM tradition

It was a strange 24 hours, or maybe 36 hours, for Cork GAA, writes Michael Moynihan.

Lunchtime Friday there was a 25th anniversary celebration of the senior double won by the Leesiders in 1990, and over the day-and-a-half following the county’s development squad teams racked up an impressive seven titles at various age levels.

Then Jimmy Barry-Murphy announced his resignation as the county’s senior hurling manager: The past, the future and the present, all intersecting on the same news cycle, jammed together as though a bad novelist was trying to plot his way out of writer’s block.