Cork County Board secretary\/CEO Kevin O\u2019Donovan has no doubts about SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh\u2019s ability to hold the Munster-Racing 92 Investec Cup game the night before the Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC final.<\/p>\n
While previous rugby fixtures at the venue had avoided clashes with GAA games, the scheduling of the European tie for Saturday, October 17 raised questions, given that that that weekend has housed county hurling finals in recent years.<\/p>\n
The calendar could get even busier \u2013 the Munster fixture will be rubber-stamped at the GAA\u2019s Central Council meeting on August 1, when the hosting of Republic of Ireland v Kazakhstan women\u2019s international in Cork on Tuesday, October 13 will also be discussed.<\/p>\n
In such a scenario, county Premier SFC semi-finals the previous weekend could be held on the Saturday night rather than Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have Munster Rugby on the Saturday and the county hurling finals on the Sunday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s without the Barrs or Newcestown or something like that, and Cork don\u2019t have the four weeks at the back like we did the last two years, because we didn\u2019t reach the All-Ireland hurling final.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Munster Rugby\/senior hurling clash has been signed off by the county CCC on a fixture basis, by Richad Murphy on an event-control basis \u2013 can I have the stadium ready 12 hours later? – and by Colm Daly on a pitch basis \u2013 can you have that pitch lined and ready to go? <\/p>\n
\u201cThose three entities, you can\u2019t have a match without the three of them, it can\u2019t function. That\u2019s why it was all absolutely buttoned down last week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another matter to be buttoned down in due course is county minor and U20 managerial appointments.<\/p>\n
The two-year terms of Noel Furlong (U20 hurling) and Keith Ricken (minor football) have concluded, while Donal Mulcahy had a one-year term as minor hurling boss.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donovan is keeping an open mind with regard to the situation and what might materialise.<\/p>\n
\u201cRay Keane is in year one of a two-year term and the other three under-age appointments are up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything will be looked at. All of our appointments are on a given term and we\u2019ll be discussing all aspects. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a communal, positive, joint decision made on all of this \u2013 it\u2019s not adversarial. The guys involved at the under-age level have no egos, they just want to help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork County Board secretary\/CEO Kevin O\u2019Donovan has no doubts about SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh\u2019s ability to hold the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-552042","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\/552042","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=552042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}