Cork Board lashes back as McCarthy names team to play Dubs
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Friday February 06 2009
AS embattled Cork hurling manager, Gerald McCarthy, announced a team of complete senior inter-county rookies last night for the first game in the NHL, the County Board released another lengthy statement lambasting last year's panel.
Just 24 hours after Croke Park accepted that its own attempts to intervene had no chance of success, the Cork County Board said it deeply regretted "the failure of this latest genuine initiative to bring this dispute to an amicable conclusion."
However, the Board once again hit back at the players, saying their recent press conference and statements had "seriously misrepresented" the sequence of events in relation to McCarthy's re-appointment and stressed that it was the players who would not meet under an independent chairman in the subsequent efforts by mediator, Olann Kelleher, to find a breakthrough.
The exact details of what county chairman, Jerry O'Sullivan, told county delegates on January 27 about the dispute were also given.
The board said it was not until the third of five meetings of the Appointment Committee that "the players put forward a plan for a management and backroom team (involving 22 roles)."
The board said the sub-committe offered to have the players' plan presented by the members of the County Executive to McCarthy, "or for the players to do that themselves."
However, they said the players then wanted five people -- including McCarthy -- to be interviewed about their 'management package' proposals."
The board said it did not want interviews to take place as it would "inevitably lead to qualified people then (or in the future) not allowing their names to go forward in such a process, as happened in the past when the entire County Board voted on appointments."
- Cliona Foley
