{"id":22609,"date":"2025-08-25T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:31:08","slug":"not-a-pups-chance-cork-chairperson-pat-horgan-rules-out-idea-of-outside-manager-to-replace-pat-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22609\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not a pup’s chance’ – Cork chairperson Pat Horgan rules out idea of outside manager to replace Pat Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cork County Board chairperson Pat Horgan expects that progress on the appointment of a new senior hurling manager will be made quickly \u2013 but he has ruled out the idea of an outside manager getting the job.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Pat Ryan opted against seeking a new term as boss and so the board will now begin the process of finding a successor, with Ben O’Connor and Noel Furlong touted as the favourites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Horgan feels that Ryan is leaving with his head held high.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing is that I want to be associated with all the tributes that have been paid to Pat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s been an incredible volunteer and he certainly has left Cork hurling in a better place than what he found it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other thing is that the Cork public is mobilised behind his team now. That\u2019s thanks to Pat and the whole group and we have a movement now greater than anything that any GAA team has experienced in recent times. <\/p>\n

\u201cPat and his management team and the backroom and have lifted things to an incredible level and we want to pay tribute to everybody for that. We\u2019re all parting on good terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next steps will be taken promptly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will happen next is that the management of Cork County Board will meet shortly and they\u2019ll select an appointment committee quickly to fill the vacancy of the Cork senior hurling manager\u2019s position,\u201d Horgan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat committee will report back to the management and a recommendation will be brought to the county committee for approval.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BenBen O’Connor. Picture: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile.<\/p>\n

The next monthly meeting of Cork County Board is on Tuesday week, September 2. However, Horgan was loath to make a commitment that movement would be so quick as to secure a name by then.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wouldn’t be putting any time on that,\u201d he said, \u201cwhat I would say is that we’d be hopeful that we can bring it to county committee as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn’t be saying that we’d definitely have it for Tuesday week but what I would be saying is that they will report back to management and a recommendation will be brought to county committee for approval. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ll be doing that as quickly as possible, but at the same time, it won’t be rushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NoelNoel Furlong. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

Where there have been external coaches drafted in – Ryan’s coach was Donal O’Rourke from Waterford while Galwayman Kevin Walsh is with the footballers – Cork have never gone outside the county for a manager and Horgan does not envisage that situation changing on this occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have plenty of candidates,\u201d he said, \u201cand we will certainly be not looking outside the county boundaries – not a pup’s chance, not on my watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can take it from me that there are ample candidates within Cork.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork County Board chairperson Pat Horgan expects that progress on the appointment of a new senior hurling manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-22609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}