Cork leak goals as Tyrone sneak home

THE journey home will have taken Cork the best part of six hours and Conor Counihan was probably still trying to figure out quite how his team had just fallen to their first defeat of the season as they slipped into Leeside.

Score 16 points and a manager is entitled to take a win for granted, but a cocktail of problems – some self-imposed, others less so – conspired against the visitors at Healy Park where Tyrone finally got off the mark.

Chief among them, of course, was the concession of three goals for the second time this season. Cork have now shipped seven in their first four games and Counihan conceded such a statistic is a worry.