Keith Ricken: ‘There are more young lads in summer camps in Cork than there is in the whole of Connacht’

Embarrassing. A crisis. Unacceptable. And those were the more moderate terms used in the media to describe the state of Cork football just last March following the county’s relegation to Division 3 of the Allianz league.

Now, on the cusp of August, the Cork seniors are still in the Championship, preparing to wrap up their Super 8s campaign this weekend, a day after the county’s U20 side compete in the EirGrid All-Ireland final against Dublin. The following weekend, the Cork minors will compete in the All-Ireland semi-finals of that competition.