Cork manager Bobbie O’Dwyer hailed the resilience of his troops for not throwing in the towel when Galway goaled three minutes into second-half stoppages.

A brilliant start to the first period of extra-time, which included a goal after 18 seconds, delivered Cork a first All-Ireland minor football title since 2000 and a first underage double in 38 years.

“Momentum is a very important thing,” begins Cork minor football manager Bobbie O’Dwyer.

Club championship fixtures will be played in Cork on the same days the county contests the All-Ireland minor football and U20 hurling finals.

Cork minor manager Bobbie O’Dwyer knows how quickly Cork football’s restorative summer has trickled all the way down to the next generation.

In the same way that he disagreed with the assertion of Cork football being on its knees, Ronan McCarthy doesn’t now believe that a couple of notable results have made everything “rosy in the garden”.

Weekend Talking Points

Unlike a fortnight ago when the Cork hurlers and footballers were forced to line out at Croke Park on separate days, common sense, thankfully, has prevailed this weekend. Two Cork teams playing back-to-back at the one venue on the same day. Scheduling can be rather simple when done right.

Bobbie O’Dwyer’s recollection is forensic, and not because his son was Cork corner-back in Tralee that night.

New format, new Kerry management, and a new crop of Kingdom youngsters, but, from a long way out, it was abundantly clear that a familiar result would again materialise.

The Cork minor football team to play Kerry in tomorrow evening’s Munster championship round-robin fixture contains three players who featured against the Kingdom in last year’s provincial semi-final.

Nobody was surprised at the margin of Cork’s victory in last night’s Electric Ireland Munster MFC first-round tie in Páirc Uí Rinn, least of all Waterford boss Tom Flynn.

Goalkeeper Diarmuid Doody is the only survivor from last year’s Munster U17 football competition as Cork begin their campaign in the new minor grade tonight against Waterford in Páirc Uí Rinn (throw-in 7pm).

Macroom 4-8 Newmarket 2-11: Gaining momentum with every outing, Macroom booked a Cork Premier IFC quarter-final date with either Éire Óg or Grenagh when edging home at wind and rain-swept Dromtarriffe yesterday.

O’Donovan Rossa 1-13 Avondhu 1-09

For the second successive year O’Donovan Rossa surmounted a West Cork challenge in the opening round of the SFC when they defeated Dohenys in Clonakilty on Saturday night.