Diarmuid O’Sullivan teaches ‘dark arts’ to Cork hurlers

Cork hurling selector Diarmuid O’Sullivan revealed how he trains with the present squad to teach the players the “dark arts” of the game.

O’Sullivan, who is part of new manager Kieran Kingston’s backroom team, has been “astounded” as to how the game has progressed in the six years since his inter-county retirement and while labelling the commitment of the current crop as “incredible”, he says the “dark arts” have become forgotten tricks of the trade.

“I still take an active part in inter-county training with the lads, not because I want to make a comeback, but the fact I’m trying to teach them the dark arts which have kind of got lost on a few of them,” disclosed O’Sullivan at the Rebel Óg annual awards banquet.