Confirmed: John Cleary staying on as Cork senior football boss

Cork manager John Cleary. Pic: Bryan Keane/Inpho

John Cleary has received a new two-year term as Cork senior football manager.

The Castlehaven man was ratified for another couple of seasons at Tuesday’s county board meeting.

Cleary took over Cork on an interim basis in 2022 and has been in the permanent position for the last three seasons.

Cleary’s management team will be proposed for ratification at September’s county board meeting.

His backroom team for the past three seasons has comprised of coach Kevin Walsh, selectors Micheál Ó Croinín, James Loughrey and Barry Corkery, as well as performance coach Rob Heffernan.

For the second year in a row, Cork bowed out at the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final stages when they lost to Dublin.

They defeated Roscommon to make the knock-out stages, having beaten Donegal in the 2024 group phase before exiting the championship at the hands of Louth.