All-Ireland U20 hurling medallist Se\u00e1n Daly is set to transfer from Randal \u00d3g to St Finbarr\u2019s for hurling.<\/p>\n
Daly, who was part of the Ben O\u2019Connor-managed squad that won the title in 2023, is among those whose transfer applications have been recommended for approval by Cork County Board\u2019s Competitions Control Committee. Assuming no hiccups, they will be made official at Tuesday night\u2019s monthly board meeting at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
While he never played minor for the county, Daly\u2019s perseverance stood him in good stead.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI would have been involved from U13 up to U16,\u201d he told The Echo in 2023, \u201cbut I was on the C and B teams, I was never close to the A team.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI didn\u2019t make the minor panel but I was involved last year [2022] with the U20s as an extended squad member. This year was the first year I was properly on it.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was always a bit smaller than the rest of them and it took a few years to physically develop and get up to that level.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBy the time I was 19 or 20, I was a lot closer to fellas than I had been when I was 16 or 17.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daly, who has been a mainstay of the UCC team in the Fitzgibbon Cup during his time in college, will continue to play football for Randal \u00d3g, with whom he won a county JBFC medal in 2021.<\/p>\n
He will come into a Barrs set-up fronted by brothers Paudie and Kevin Murray as manager and coach respectively and he is following a similar Dunmanway-to-Togher path as the pair \u2013 they played football for Dohenys, as well as hurling for Cloughduv, before moving to the Barrs in 2002.<\/p>\n
The city side will commence their RedFM Hurling League Division 1 campaign against neighbours and rivals Blackrock on Sunday, March 8 while their group in the Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC features Midleton, Newcestown and Bride Rovers.<\/p>\n
Other transfers set for approval on Tuesday include former Cork footballers Colm and Kevin O\u2019Driscoll, whose proposed switches from Tadhg Mac C\u00e1rthaighs to O\u2019Donovan Rossa and Clonakilty respectively had been revealed before Christmas.<\/p>\n
Former Cork hurler Cian McCarthy, who was a selector as Sarsfields won the Premier SHC in 2025, will be able to hurl for the club again as he switched from Passage.<\/p>\n
Other veterans on the move are Colm O\u2019Sullivan (Cloyne to Newcestown) and Paul Honohan (Bishopstown to Carraig na bhFear) reflecting changes in residence for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland U20 hurling medallist Se\u00e1n Daly is set to transfer from Randal \u00d3g to St Finbarr\u2019s for hurling.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-289152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}