Cork players crank up pressure on Coughlan

CORK CITY players yesterday increased the pressure on club owner Tom Coughlan to walk away from the League of Ireland outfit at a press conference in Leeside’s Maryborough House Hotel.

Represented by employment lawyer John Boylan – who described it as the “worst case” he has seen in his career – the majority of players and staff called on Coughlan to relinquish control of the club as negotiations continued behind the scenes to secure its future.

They accused Coughlan of being “very close to irreparably destroying” Cork City by his “stubborn unreasonable resistance… to giving up ownership” and also slammed a “litany of broken promises and dishonoured agreements”.