This year signals the 10th anniversary of Mark Coleman’s Cork senior debut.
While the successful Munster campaign of 2017 is associated with the emergence of Coleman, Shane Kingston, Darragh Fitzgibbon and Luke Meade, the Blarney man and Kingston saw game-time late in the defeat to Wexford in Thurles in 2016.
That season was Kieran Kingston’s first as manager and, including the Tracton man’s two stints, Ben O’Connor is the fifth new boss of Coleman’s inter-county career.
The Newtownshandrum native’s stint has gone well so far, aided by familiarity with those who played under him for the Cork U20 side. While Coleman had no prior experience of working with O’Connor, he had an idea of what lay ahead and that perception…