Clare no match for Cork’s young guns

CORK boss Denis Walsh placed several of the county’s upcoming talents under the microscope in Passage West yesterday and was rewarded with a thoroughly convincing victory in a senior hurling challenge against Clare.

The match was held as the official opening of the local club’s new pitch facility at Manning Park and those assembled witnessed Cork cruise to a win that was as comfortable as the final 20-point winning margin suggests.

Walsh rung the changes from last Sunday’s narrow Allianz HL defeat by Waterford at Fraher Field with only four players surviving from that game. The experimentation policy extended through the match with six fringe players thrust into the action at half-time.