All-Ireland winner Fintan Goold retires from inter-county football

Fintan Goold in action in the 2015 Munster final replay

FINTAN GOOLD IS the latest Cork All-Ireland winner to call time on his inter-county Gaelic football career.

The 30-year-old’s announcement comes two weeks after Daniel Goulding revealed he was retiring from action with the Rebel County.

The Macroom clubman was a member of Cork’s All-Ireland-winning team in 2010, and was introduced from the bench in the final against Down.

Goold, who also came on as a substitute in Cork’s All-Ireland final defeats to Kerry in 2007 and 2009, felt the time was right to end his inter-county career having decided to give it one last shot under Peadar Healy in 2016.

However, in a season blighted by injuries, Goold didn’t feature in Cork’s championship campaign, which ended in defeat to Donegal at the quarter-final stage.

“I talked to [manager] Peadar [Healy] and said I’d give it one last crack, but I was picking up a lot of small injuries, maybe I was pushing myself a bit too hard trying to get back,” Goold told the Irish Examiner.

“The first game I played was championship with my club; I didn’t really do enough really to break in over the summer.

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“I forced my way back into the panel all right for the Donegal game, but walking out of Croke Park that day, I knew my time was up.”

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