Cahalane: we stand by our senior stars

CORK’S Under-21s footballers would have refused any request to fill the breach left by their striking senior counterparts had they been asked to do so by the county board.

“We wouldn’t have (played) because a lot of us had friends on the senior panel,” said Castlehaven’s Sean Cahalane, a member of last year’s U-21 All-Ireland winning side.

“They wouldn’t have wanted us to be dragged into it and, if it had been asked of us, we would have declined.