Douglas and Mallow bank on youth for opener

DOUGLAS and Mallow get the Evening Echo Cork SFC up and running at Ballanley tonight (throw-in 7pm) in a rerun of their first-round encounter in last year’s championship.

On that occasion Douglas came out on top by a point, and Flor O’Sullivan, a selector with the city side, is expecting just as close a game this year.

“We don’t know much about Mallow apart from the fact that three or four of their senior players have gone.