Six-shooting Cork eye title but Walsh focused on rivals Kerry

CORK are chasing their sixth consecutive Munster ladies football title when they take on old rivals Kerry in Bruff tonight (7pm) but Angela Walsh is unhappy that the winners will be forced to wait seven weeks to get back into action.

The All-Ireland quarter-final isn’t until August 22, which leaves the various provincial champions as sitting ducks for the battle-hardened teams coming through the qualifier system.

“It’s an awful long time” says the Inch Rovers defender. “I’ll be back (teaching) at school by the time we play the second round of our championships. It’s a huge thing to look at because you’ve literally the whole summer training.”