{"id":644864,"date":"2026-08-19T05:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:02:20","slug":"cork-hurlers-set-for-backroom-change-as-gerry-hussey-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644864\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork hurlers set for backroom change as Gerry Hussey departs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Hussey has left his role as performance coach with the Cork hurlers after a single season under manager Ben O\u2019Connor, according to  The Echo.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Galway native  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41772143.html\">arrived last winter<\/a> as a significant addition to O\u2019Connor\u2019s backroom team, bringing a strong reputation from his work with Ireland\u2019s Olympic boxers and his involvement in Tipperary\u2019s 2016 All-Ireland SHC triumph alongside Tony \u00d3g Regan. He replaced Gary Keegan as Cork&#8217;s performance coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Results, however, never fully aligned with Cork\u2019s ambitions. The Rebels reached the Division 1A League final but were beaten, lost the Munster final, and then faded badly in their All-Ireland semi-final against Galway,  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41874009.html\">losing 2-26 to 1-18<\/a> in a display that lacked the spark of earlier months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The nature of that defeat brought scrutiny across all areas of the set-up, and Hussey\u2019s departure now necessitates change to O\u2019Connor\u2019s support team as Cork look to reset for 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Attention now turns to the shape of the backroom team for next season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While Hussey moves on, it is expected that Ronan Curran will remain involved as a selector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerry Hussey has left his role as performance coach with the Cork hurlers after a single season under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-644864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-eire","tag-hurling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117120424228065768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644864","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=644864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}