Kieran Morrison and Se\u00e1nie McGrath are set to lead the Cork minor hurling management for 2027, with a possibility that the county may opt for a change regarding the recent practice of one-year terms.<\/p>\n
Of late, management teams have come up through the Rebel \u00d3g development squad age-grades with each group of players, bringing them through to minor\/U17 level. However, the knock-on effect of that has been that each minor set-up has had just a single year before moving on.<\/p>\n
St Catherine\u2019s clubman Morrison and McGrath of Glen Rovers \u2013 both of whom won All-Ireland medals with Cork in 1999 \u2013 have helped to nurture the players born in 2010. Having had them at U16 this year, they will bring them through to minor next year \u2013 it is believed, though, that they will remain in charge for the 2028 season as well.<\/p>\n
The monthly county board meeting takes place at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh on Tuesday night, with inter-county management teams on the agenda \u2013 while the two senior managers, Ben O\u2019Connor and John Cleary, and U20 football boss Ray Keane had already been confirmed as remaining in charge of their respective sides, both minor roles and the U20 hurling job must be filled.<\/p>\n
If the move to a longer term for minor hurling materialises, it is likely that the success enjoyed by the minor football team in 2026 will have played a part. Keith Ricken was appointed in late 2024 on a two-year term, culminating with All-Ireland success this year. Indeed, it is expected that the St Vincent\u2019s man and his backroom team will be returned for a third season in charge.<\/p>\n
The question of who succeeds Noel Furlong as U20 hurling manager is less clear. The Carrigtwohill man had been installed on a two-year term, with former Cork goalkeeper D\u00f3nal \u00d3g Cusack as his coach \u2013 in both seasons, the Rebels performed well in securing second-placed finishes in the Munster championship round-robin but each campaign ended with a home semi-final defeat against Clare.<\/p>\n
Cusack\u2019s former Cloyne and Cork team-mate Diarmuid O\u2019Sullivan is among those thought to be among the contenders for the job. O\u2019Sullivan, a three-time All-Ireland medallist and four-time All-Star, was in the running four years ago \u2013 as was Furlong \u2013 when Ben O\u2019Connor got the nod to lead the U20 side, going on to secure the All-Ireland title in 2023 before losing the Munster final the following year.<\/p>\n
Having been part of Kieran Kingston\u2019s management during the Tracton man\u2019s two stints as Cork senior manager, O\u2019Sullivan had enjoyed coaching success with Ballygiblin before taking up a similar role with Sarsfields upon Johnny Crowley\u2019s return as manager of the Riverstown club for the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
Since then, Sars have won two Cork premier senior hurling titles, in 2023 and 2025, as well as four consecutive league titles. While they were beaten by Imokilly in the 2024 county final, they were Cork\u2019s representatives in the Munster club championship and won that \u2013 the county\u2019s first victory since 2009 \u2013 before making it to the All-Ireland final.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan is currently fully focused on Sars \u2013 he and Crowley are also in charge of the club\u2019s second team, which secured a direct passage to the intermediate A semi-finals \u2013 and so would not be able to commit to another role until the 2026 championships end.<\/p>\n
Also in the mix to succeed Furlong is another member of the Cork 1999 panel, Fergal McCormack. The Mallow man was the minor manager in 2025, leading the Rebels to the Munster title.<\/p>\n
A county SHC winner with Avondhu in 1996, McCormack was a minor selector under Paudie Murray in 2022 while he also had experience coaching Charleville CBS in the Dr Harty Cup prior to taking the minor job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kieran Morrison and Se\u00e1nie McGrath are set to lead the Cork minor hurling management for 2027, with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":["post-617419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617419","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=617419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}