Rory O'Connor

Just to give you an example, I do think Munster are fairly unique and it's been a challenge for Munster the entire way through

the professional era, a lot of their admin is based in Cork where they've opened a state-of-the-art centre of excellence only just a couple of months ago.

Ian Flanagan opened that.

I was talking to Cian about their position then and addressed the Conor Murray quotes at that time where he accused the organisation of penny-pinching, of making dud signings and having coaching churn.

We thought this issue would be settled when they opened up their...

based or high performance centre in Limerick most of the young promising players from Cork as far as I know all relocate to Limerick and join largely join Limerick clubs to play in the AAL which is a massive bone of contention at Cork Con and Dolphin I'm sure the majority of young players coming through are from Cork

We see the Prez team this year.

I believe the best schools team in Ireland this year is a Prez Cork team.

They hammered Munchens in the final.

It seems like the Cork schools and clubs are contributing massively to the organisation.

And Limerick hasn't been contributing to the first team in the same way in any way.

And when there's fewer Limerick players in the team, when the Limerick clubs are struggling, when Limerick hurling is going so well...

There's less connection between the people who you need to get.

You should have a core of Limer people going to Thomond every week because that's your core.

But it sounds like they're trying to rely on more people from Cork and the other counties to come in to fill the gaps that are left.

So that's a big challenge when you're talking about revenue.

They haven't... They've been looking for a naming sponsor of Thomond Park for...

as long as I can remember, since the stadium was open and they've never secured it.

Virgin Media are sponsoring Musgrave Park.

The fact that they play their league games between the two bases, I'm sure that's an issue as well.