Counihan’s big guns too powerful for Limerick

WITH a second-string side partaking in the McGrath Cup, Cork manager Conor Counihan wheeled out his big guns for the first time this season in a senior football challenge at Mallow on Saturday.

The result swung Cork’s way at the end but it was impossible to place much significance on the result, as the weather ruined it as a spectacle.

The players made a good fist of coping with the conditions and the match served a purpose, two weeks before the start of the National League. For Counihan, CIT’s elimination from the McGrath Cup afforded him the opportunity to run the rule over their players, with newcomers Ray Carey, Paul O’Flynn, Anthony Fenton and Seanie Cahalane all featuring over the hour.