Return of Ciarán Sheehan will boost Cork football once we give him time

Éire Óg's Ciaran Sheehan on the ball from Bantry Blues' Billy Foley. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
And then word dropped of Ciarán Sheehan’s return to Ronan McCarthy’s squad. The sort of news that managed to be a little bittersweet, that worked the thought process from whether this was too late now to ways it might work to a whole heap of what ifs on just what sort of difference a peak Sheehan might have made to a Cork senior team in transition from 2014 to basically last summer.

Cork have jumped on board with the risks for the possibility of reward here and there’s little hiding what Sheehan might offer if things can be handled – a potential scoring threat, the presence in a forward line that’s probably lacked that sort of ball-winner for some time, and as Ronan McCarthy pointed out, an experience and leadership factor of someone who’s been involved in the preparation and mentality of a professional background.
