Cork U-21 boss “disgusted” with football management

Cork U-21 hurling manager Ger Fitzgerald has spoken of his “disgust” with the county’s senior football management for refusing to release two players for Wednesday night’s Munster semi-final against Tipperary.

Aidan Walsh and Ciaran Sheehan, who started at midfield and full forward respectively for the Cork senior footballers in their All-Ireland qualifier victory over Cavan last Saturday and will face Wexford in the same competition this coming Sunday, had been in line to play for the U-21 hurlers before Conor Counihan intervened.

And U-21 boss Fitzgerald is unhappy with the situation. He is quoted in the Irish Independent as saying, “We tried in every way that we could to ensure that the senior football management would make the two players available to us for this match.

“I am very disappointed with the attitude of the Cork senior football management and we, as a selection committee, are reviewing our position. We didn’t have every U-21 player who should have been available and something needs to be done about it.

“I am disgusted and I think the message needs to go out to the Cork public who are paying good money to come down here and are being deprived of seeing the best players.”