Pearse O’Neill and Eamon Fennell see reasons to be positive from return of ‘mark’

“My memory is not the best,” laughs Pearse O’Neill. He’s just been asked to jog it back to the spring of 2010 when the mark last featured in inter-county Gaelic football.

“I can’t remember being in a game when the mark was involved.”

The season was a monumental success for Cork but the early part of it remains foggy for the 6ft 5in man who helped himself to 1-6 from play in three of the county’s first four Division 1 games before they went on to claim the top-flight title. “I genuinely don’t recall the mark being used in those games,” he says.