Throwback Thursday: Cork Examiner soccer team landed the treble

Members of the Cork Examiner's successful treble-winning team of 1990/91 pictured at the 25th-anniversary function at the Kiln in 2016. Picture: Finbarr Buckley
Founded in 1949, Examiner reached four cup finals in the eighties, winning two and losing two. But, by the start of the ’90s there was a renewed determination about the club as management duo of Dave Ahern and John Merritt, under the watchful eyes of the experienced backroom staff of Frank Linehan and Jim Kelleher, set about putting in place key players who would complete the jigsaw and transform the team into championship material.
