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Several seasoned players will not be involved with Cork’s senior hurling team next season, the understands.
Aidan Walsh, Conor Lehane, Christopher Joyce and Chris O’Leary are among those who will not be featured in red and white next season, joining goalkeeper Anthony Nash, who announced his retirement from the intercountry game Sunday afternoon.
Walsh, Anthony Nash’s teammate at Kanturk, won an all-Ireland senior soccer medal in 2010 with Cork and collected the Young Footballer of the Year and All-Star Game awards that same season.
Four years later he won a Munster Senior Hurling Championship medal with Cork against Limerick in the last provincial final at the former Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Conor Lehane has been involved with Cork’s senior pitchers since 2011 and holds Munster Senior Championship medals from 2014, 2017 and 2018.
Played in the Irish final and replay of 2013, the same year he helped Midleton win the Cork SHC title with a man of the match display in the final against Sarsfields – Lehane hit 2-10 in that county final .
Christopher Joyce also played in Cork’s race to the 2013 All-Ireland final loss to Clare, and like Lehane he has three Munster SHC medals.
The Na Piarsaigh defender came back after a serious knee injury suffered on serve with Cork against Dublin in 2015, and last year tore his cruciate ligament in his other year in a club game.
It is understood that further changes to the panel and the backroom team are in the works.
Niall Cashman, Sean Twomey, Daire O’Leary and Ger Millerick have joined the senior panel from Cork, as have Tadhg Deasy, Alan Connolly, Daniel Meaney and Shane Barrett.
Cork’s top management has also assembled up to ten young players on a development team to prepare them for senior inter-county competition in the coming seasons.
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