KIERAN KINGSTON IS set to finalise his Cork backroom team for the 2020 season with All-Ireland winners Pat Mulcahy and Brian Corcoran in line to have roles in the setup.
The Echo has reported this morning that Newtownshandrum native Mulcahy and Erins Own club man Corcoran are about to come on board, along with former Clare hurler and goalkeeping coach Christy O’Connor.
Kingston’s appointment for a second spell as Cork manager was confirmed last month with Ger Cunningham announced as coach then and Diarmuid O’Sullivan taking up a position as selector.
At a press conference after being ratified as Cork manager, Kingston spoke of his plans to add to his backroom team.
Mulcahy will come on board as selector after recent coaching roles with his club as they contested the Cork senior quarter-finals this year and CIT Fitzgibbon Cup teams. He won All-Ireland senior medals with both Cork and Newtownshandrum during his playing days.
Corcoran is one of Cork’s most iconic GAA figures, a two-time Hurler of the Year winner who also won three All-Ireland senior hurling medals and also claimed an array of football accolades with the county. The nature of his role in the Cork senior management is not yet specified.
O’Connor has playing experience for the Clare hurlers and won an All-Ireland medal with his club St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield. He has been involved as a goalkeeping coach with Limerick, Dublin and Galway in recent years, part of the Tribesmen setup that delivered the Liam MacCarthy Cup in 2017.
It has also been outlined in today’s report that Mark Brady, who was involved with the Italy team under Conor O’Shea at the Rugby World Cup, will oversee the strength and conditioning.
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I was thinking the same yesterday. Can you imagine a player like Aidan O’Shea was left on the bench for a whole game. There would be a mutiny the day after their championship campaign ended.
@Ned Flanders: cheap shot. O’Shea showed he is the ultimate team player by switching to a totally new position over the last 2 games to help the team get over the line. I guess haters are always gonna hate though
@Pepper Brooks: ultimate team player? That particular tactic nearly blew up in mayos face. In the replay he was soloing around his 21 half way through second half and trying 40 yard outside of boot passes that ran out over the line. If kerry hadnt panicked and had taken points earlier rather than going for goals when 7 down it could have been a very different
@Pepper Brooks: O’Shea wouldn’t make the Dublin bench.
Juniors maybe
@johnnyA the game is also about opinions,for you it’s bitter and twisted against Dublin,while us Dublin fan’s are enjoying every minute of this great Team,so happy days for us Ha Ha ha
@alan dodrill: *fans
It’s a great achievement to show humility when you’re strolling through the championship. Fair play to the Dublin/AIG players for being such good winners. If Gavin exerts such control he must endorse or at least turn a blind eye to the playacting. Cooper at it again yesterday. McCarthy and McCaffrey at it the last day – good footballers but while their fans have brought the worst aspects of UK terrace culture to Gaelic Games the players have brought Neymar type playacting into our national sport. Great lads all the same.
@Johnny A: Why not just enjoy the football instead of always having a bitch , life is too short
@Tony Talbot: the football championship used to mean something. Now it’s completely hollow. Very few meaningful contests – certainly none when Dublin/AIG are involved. Instead of mitigating their natural advantages – population, money, home advantage – the GAA have bolstered these and set them in stone. Teams like Tyrone and Monaghan now come up to Croker with ridiculous defensive systems just to keep the score down. The GAA have to look at the population and reconsider a split – for example Dublin North/AIG & Dublin South/HSBC. There should be an equalisation process with the corporate loot – they should be allowed keep 20-30% with the rest being redistributed. And they should be kept out of Croker a lot more – why not make them play an away semi final for example. I’ll enjoy it then.
@Johnny A: have to hand it to you mate you have bitterness to a new level. Short memories like most non dubs. This golden era has more to do wirh jim gavin than anything else.Maybe he should only be allowed manage smaller counties?
@Johnny A: explain 1995 – 2011??
If you split Dublin now you’d risk an all Dublin All Ireland final and that would be worse! Did you see the bench. Dublin A Vs Dublin B would be some game!
Other counties need to stop making excuses… Kerry has the same population as Wicklow as is the most successful football county by far
Also, let’s split Kilkenny into North & South and actually while we’re at what about the most successful football county, Kerry…well over due a split!!
@Brendan Farrell: if you think a 2 way split isn’t enough and they’d still be too strong then a 4 way split would be ideal. Could be 4 Dublin zones – AIG1, AIG2, AIG3, AIG4. Have their own provincial championship. The metropolitan cup or something like that.
@paddy: I wouldn’t call it bitterness – more like constructive hate.