After the worst Munster final defeat in history, the topic of Ronan McCarthy’s future with the Cork senior footballers had to be broached. Too often Cork managers seem to a little too willingly accept their place in the pecking order vis-à-vis the Kingdom. With the best will in the world it just wasn’t working for Cork under McCarthy any more. Certainly that was the case on Monday morning when the news came through that Jack O’Connor was to step down as manager of the Kildare senior footballers with immediate effect. To be fair it’s hard to draw any other inference than that the three-time All Ireland winning manager is suddenly in the hunt for the Kerry senior football manager’s job.

Source: Irish Independent September 10, 2021 15:52 UTC