Cork Covid training breach 'should not have happened'

Then Cork football manager Ronan McCarthy received a 12-week suspension for the much-criticised gathering. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Cork GAA secretary Kevin O’Donovan has said the Cork football training session on Youghal beach last January, at a time when collective inter-county gatherings were banned, “should not have happened”.

Then Cork football manager Ronan McCarthy received a 12-week suspension for the much-criticised gathering, which occurred during a month of record daily Covid case numbers.