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John Fogarty: Ben O’Connor doesn’t need to know his Cork team just yet

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CALLING IT: Cork manager, Ben O'Connor in Limerick on Saturday. Pic: INPHO/James Lawlor

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John Fogarty is the Irish Examiner’s GAA correspondent, with unique insights into the action on the pitch and in the Gaelic games’ corridors of power.

Well, nobody can say Ben O’Connor hasn’t run the rule over what he has available.

You could make two Cork teams and have a few players to spare with the personnel he has used during this National Hurling League.

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