No looking back for Laois

LAOIS manager Sean Dempsey is adamant there will be no ill feelings when his charges renew one of the GAA’s keenest underage rivalries against Cork in Saturday’s Cadbury’s U21 football final.

The counties have contested four championship games in the last three years, each of which has been a keenly contested and entertaining affair.

It was the first of these games back in 2004, an All-Ireland minor quarter-final in Limerick, that most people remember. With the sides level at full-time, a mass brawl erupted resulting in a raft of suspensions and some of the most negative publicity the GAA has seen in years.