Bring on Saffrons, says recovering Ó hAilpín

SEAN Óg Ó hAILPÍN has stressed he meant no disrespect this week when he expressed his surprise that Antrim — Cork’s next opponents — were still alive and kicking in the hurling championship.

That said, he won’t be too bothered if Dinny Cahill decides to stick his words up on the Ulster side’s dressing-room wall ahead of the counties’ All-Ireland quarter-final clash at Croke Park this Sunday.

“Let him,” said the Na Piarsaigh man, who gives himself a 50-50 shot of being fit for the encounter. “I actually didn’t realise Antrim were still in it and that was probably Seán Óg in a bubble of himself, just worried about Cork games.