O’Connor relishing main event

AS modes of recovery go, theirs was plucked straight from leftfield.

When the Cork footballers came to plot a route back from the abyss they visited after last September’s shattering All-Ireland final reversal, there was an acute sense that a different take was required to aid their rehabilitation.

The interest levels in playing football again were scant, so instead Noel O’Leary pointed them in the direction of the unlikely environs of Rylane Boxing Club.