Cork moving on from the past, plotting the future

The Cork hurlers may have struggled to get goals last season, but their county board has, of late, developed a happy knack of hitting the target.

It wasn’t always thus. But the early encouragement of a five-year football plan and the rebirth of Corkness has been followed by a proper pathway for hurling into 2020 and beyond. The sense that GAA momentum in Cork was dreadfully retarded under previous administrations grows.