Champs keeping options open

The most uplifting element of a drab day at Croke Park was the way the three U21s, Jamie O’Sullivan, Aidan Walsh and Ciarán Sheehan, handled themselves.

IT’S tempting to write off Cork’s second successive NFL title on the basis of the pitiful challenge they faced in Croke Park yesterday, but the graph continues on an upward trajectory.

Momentum is maintained and another trophy is annexed.