Cork football legend Larry Tompkins has linked up with city side Bishopstown’s management ahead of their new season.

EchoLive.ie reports that Tompkins, who won two All-Ireland titles and six Munster crowns as a player with the Rebels, has joined manager Brian Cuthbert’s backroom team as the club look to try and capture the Cork senior ‘A’ football championship title later this year.

Tompkins’s son Jack is part of the Bishopstown senior squad which were knocked out at the quarter-final stage in the second-tier championship in the past two seasons.

Tompkins himself managed Cork to a National League title back in 1999, as well as an All-Ireland SFC final appearance that year, departing the post in 2003.

A decade later would see him coaching Mitchelstown to a county junior ‘A’ football championship crown in the Rebel County, but he has largely remained out of involvement with teams until news emerged that he would be part of Cuthbert’s ticket this season.

Bishopstown will get their Division 3 football league campaign underway on Sunday week against Aghabullogue before embarking on championship duty later in the year in a group which is set to contain Éire Óg, Kilshannig, and Clyda Rovers.

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