Big Interview: What’s not to like about new hurling proposals?

Munster Council chairman Jerry O’Sullivan has gone from flaking with Ringy and fighting for Cloyne to tussling over fixtures and fretting about the future of the GAA, writes Kieran Shannon.

There’s a story Dónal Óg Cusack recounts in his autobiography which explains how Diarmuid O’Sullivan brought what he did as a player and which Jackie Tyrrell for one believes he now needs to instil as a selector with Cork.

In 1992, Cloyne reached the county intermediate final. Along the way they played Youghal in Castlemartyr. Late on the game was on the line. A Youghal player — a chap called Mickey Downey, they can tell you in Cloyne, the story has become such a part of their folklore — came running in onto a loose ball in front of goal. Cloyne’s nearest defender had lost his stick. Downey lifted and pulled. That same nearest Cloyne defender threw himself in front of the swing and took the full belt of it.