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Hull to sign loan star Meyler
SPORTEvening Echo
Carrigaline long puckpicture special: P48, 49
Cork GAAstalwartspass away
GAA
CORK GAA is today mourn-ing the death of Joe Mc-Grath, who coached countyteams in football and hurl-ing and who also steeredBlackrock to All-Irelandglory in the 1970s.
He was joint coach with EamonRyan when Cork defeated Kerryby a point in the 1983 Munster fi-nal with Tadhg Murphy’s famouslate goal proving decisive.
And five years later the Downnative coached Cork to the All-Ire-land U21 hurling title, defeatingKilkenny by 4-11 to 1-5 in the fi-nal.
He was also very involved in set-ting up coaching structures at na-tional level and was one of the firstfull-time coaching officers in Corkunder the Carrigdhoun banner.
The McGrath Cup, which startsat the weekend, was his brainchildback in 1981 for the promotion of
football in Munster.CIT host Cork in a first round
game on Sunday at 2pm. The stu-dents are gearing up for firstround Sigerson Cup tie at home toGMIT, but they’ll be missingCiarán Sheehan, who is on holi-days.
Meanwhile, Fermoy stalwartJimmy Dennigan has also passedaway. He was one of the leadinginter-county football referees inthe 1970s and 80s, handling the1986 All-Ireland final betweenKerry and Tyrone.
Goals from Pat Spillane and GerPower helped Kerry win 2-15 to1-10 claim the last of five titles inthe 1980s.
GAA stalwarts Joe McGrath, left, and Jimmy Dennigan passed away.
DAVID Meyler’s brilliant form forHull City in their push towards ofthe top of the Championship willsee the midfielder make a perman-ent switch from Sunderland thisweek.The former Cork City midfielder
scored three goals in recent weeksfor Hull, and played the full 90minutes in their 0-0 draw away toBlackpool yesterday, which seesthem consolidate second in the
table in an automatic promotionslot, but seven points off leadersCardiff.The deal for Meyler’s move will
rise to €1.8 million includingadd-ons, quite a profit for Sunder-land who paid just €120,000 toCork City in July 2008 when RoyKeane was in charge.The 23-year-old initially made his
mark with the Black Cats underSteve Bruce, who is now at thehelm in Hull, and his debut wasagainst Blackburn in December2009. However two successive cru-ciate knee injuries stinted his pro-gress, and he hasn’t been able tobreak into the team under MartinO’Neill.The son of former Blackrock hurl-
er and Wexford native John, Davidwill be hoping regular games for
Hull will further his claims for a reg-ular spot in the Ireland squad, afterhis first appearance against Omanlast September.Meyler could be joined full-time
at Hull by precocious Dublin wingerRobbie Brady. Bruce yesterdayalso tabled a bid to secure the20-year-old services from ManUnited after excelling on loan lastseason and in recent months.● `See P52, 53 for more.
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