Cork senior football management hold crisis meeting

Following their shock Allianz League defeat to Clare in Ennis at the weekend, the Cork senior football management met for a crisis meeting at a Cork city hotel on Monday evening.

The 2-9 to 0-11 win was the Banner County’s first league victory over Cork since 1994 and it heaped pressure on manager Peadar Healy and his backroom team. Cork have lost two games in Division 2 (to Kildare and Clare) and drawn one (with Galway) and, with just one win to their name (against Fermanagh), the Rebels look destined to struggle to avoid the drop to Division 3.

Last year saw Cork’s first championship defeat to Tipperary since 1944 and there is growing concern in Leeside GAA circles about the sudden decline in Cork football, particularly as there are still several players on the panel with All-Ireland senior medals from 2010, when Cork last won Sam Maguire.