Fans face travel hitch as rail line closes

CORK and Kerry supporters face an uphill struggle to get to Croke Park, if the replayed All-Ireland semi-final, as seems certain, is fixed for next Sunday.

The rail lines out of Cork, Kerry and Limerick are closed from midnight on Friday night due to engineering works which have been scheduled for months.

Cork and Kerry are likely to play next Sunday at 4pm, following the All-Ireland SFC semi-final between Tyrone and Wexford, but as Andrew Roche of Iarnród Éireann outlined yesterday, supporters will find it difficult to make it to Dublin: