TO the victor the spoils, and the label of showing ‘bottle’, but Cork’s stuttering march to next month’s final owes most to Dublin’s utter lack of composure – and it would be a foolish Rebel who would view this triumph in any other light.

The Noel O’Leary you see on the field is not the man you get away from the raging tempest of Championship football. And the Cork defender is working on closing the gap between the perception and the reality. He spoke to Tony Leen.