O’Grady preaches caution as De Banks rouses Cork players

FIVE minutes to go in the Guinness Munster SHC semi-final in Thurles yesterday and, for the first time in a long time, the strains of the ‘De Banks’, rusty but lusty, rang around the new stands.

“Brilliant,” reckoned talismanic Cork defender Diarmuid O’Sullivan; “this is my sixth championship season, but it’s the first time I’ve ever heard De Banks being sung, it was a fierce boost.”

However, in the sober confines of the after-match tunnel, Cork manager Donal O’Grady was preaching caution: