Quirke: resilient Rebels will battle on

NO ONE can dispute that the Cork footballers have served time in the school of hard knocks in recent years.

After every Croke Park setback in recent years, they have dusted themselves down and prepared for the next year’s campaign with the earnest hope that they can calibrate their summer run perfectly.

But within the squad they have become irritated with learning for the future and are more concerned with achieving in the present. That starts next Sunday in Killarney against Kerry, where they aim to illustrate how they have rectified the past failings.