CORK STAND-OFF:THE CORK County Board will this evening contemplate the implications of the latest development in the hurling crisis. Sunday's meeting between the 2008 panel and club representatives, which resulted in the clubs agreeing to go back and vote on a motion of no confidence in Cork hurling manager Gerald McCarthy, will almost certainly be raised by the county executive committee – although it remains to be seen if they can do anything about it.

“You can never say for certain what will come up for discussion, but I’m sure there will be some mention of it,” county chairman Jerry O’Sullivan said of this evening’s pre-arranged meeting.

“Obviously, we were not present there (at Sunday’s meeting) and don’t really know what happened.

“We’re only going on what was reported on television, radio and in the newspapers.”

The 2008 senior panel had invited the county’s 239 senior, intermediate and junior clubs to meet them, and around 142 clubs did so, with around 400 representatives showing up in Douglas.

After the airing of various views, which lasted around two-and-a-half hours, the club representatives were asked to go back to their clubs and vote on two motions: the first, that all county board delegates would be allowed discuss issues of significant importance with their clubs before voting at county board meetings; the second, that the club representatives consider a vote of no confidence in McCarthy – and that the representatives come back with the results of these votes for another meeting in Douglas on Sunday week.