LIKE all outstanding counties picking Cork’s top 15 ladies footballers is no easy task. For every position there is at least two players that could comfortably slot in and make no difference to the side.

IT MAY not be around as long as the Camogie Association but since it was officially formed in 1974 the Ladies Gaelic Football Association has made great strides.

BETWEEN 1980 and 2019, Cork won 14 senior camogie titles. Mary Newman and I were given the unenviable task of selecting our best 15 players of the past 40 years. It’s not easy, particularly when you are a player yourself from that era.

IT’S Friday, so there’s a Cork City team to be picked. While we may not see a City side chosen by Neale Fenn take to the field again in 2020, we can at least ruminate on a composite 11 since the club’s establishment in 1984.

IT’S unsurprising that goalscorers are held in the highest regard. They don’t do anything all game, they miss a few sitters, but once they get their toe to a 90th-minute cross and turn a draw into a win, they’re a hero.

WHILE those compiling the best Cork hurling and football teams didn’t have to worry about transfers – out anyway, as the Rebel footballers benefited from the additions of Shea Fahy and Larry Tompkins – there was also more simplicity in terms of ...

WE still haven’t fully decided on what formation the Cork City 1984-2019 team will field, but the uncertainty is further forward, with the complement of four defenders set in stone.

IN one sense, the task of picking a best Cork City team over the past 50 years is made easier by the fact that the club wasn’t established until 1984.

LIMERICK was awash with rumours in the days leading up to the announcement of the Lions squad to tour South Africa in 1980.

CORK’S number of All-Star forwards in football stands at a baker’s dozen, 13, and one name in particular is emblazoned in gold.