Cork likely to be well tested by Offaly

TEN years ago Cork and Offaly served up one of the games of the decade, a sensational All-Ireland semi-final played in teeming rain in Croke Park.

The initiative lurched one way and the other before the Leesiders beat the Leinster men to the finishing tape and secured a place in the big show that September.

Offaly were reigning All-Ireland champions in 1999 and had the bones of their great minor teams of the 80s. Cork were just then enjoying the fruits of a fine minor side themselves which had won the 1995 All-Ireland.