Eamonn Ryan returning to his roots

Eamonn Ryan surprised a few people when he fell in with the Cork senior football management team.

His years with their female counterparts had yielded such a rich harvest that observers saw them as inextricably linked, but Ryan goes back with the men’s side. He had, of course, managed the men in the 80s.

Still, that’s a considerable difference in time: it means Ryan trained Cork teams long before many of the current players were born. However, when you ask the Watergrasshill man about training in general, he stresses the openness of this generation of Cork footballers when it comes to taking lessons on board.