Cork to appoint S&C guru to oversee inter-county teams

Cork GAA intends to appoint an overall strength and conditioning co-ordinator to create consistency of approach from development squads to senior teams within the county.

At the launch of the Cork Strategic Plan 2018-2020, it emerged that the board will also appoint advisory committees on Gaelic football and hurling to address various issues such as the competitiveness of the county leagues.

Richard Murphy, chair of steering committee which devised the plan, said: “The document shows we’re appointing a strength and conditioning co-ordinator to ensure players from development squad level to the top are all treated in the same way, so a player with the U14 development squads isn’t doing something totally different at U16 and so on. It’ll be streamlined from the lower level up.”