Aidan Walsh: I didn't retire - the management felt they had to make calls

Aidan Walsh at his hurley workshop in Kanturk, Co Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Aidan Walsh didn’t retire from inter-county hurling. That might have been the presumption following his Instagram post last December — “Was a pleasure and a privilege to get the opportunity to wear the red and white of Cork,” it opened. Rather, it was an act of acceptance.

“Maybe some people don’t know I didn’t retire,” he says now. “I was just told I wasn’t part of the plans going forward. I was kind of hoping to get another year or two out of it but it wasn’t to be. It’s something I will have to get used to.