What does the future hold for Cork GAA?

Monday night’s meeting of the Cork County Board wasn’t solely concerned with the future of long-serving secretary Frank Murphy.

The headlines immediately afterwards centred on the one-year extension given to Murphy, but the fine print conveyed a stronger sense of what the meeting dealt with.

At one point a delegate objected to a championship match being fixed for his club’s field on the basis that it was being resodded; an official at the top table pointed out that the club had played a challenge match on the same pitch 24 hours earlier, which presumably meant it was available for that upcoming championship match.