Unheralded Cork ‘heroic’, says Walsh

CORK boss Denis Walsh insisted it was “embarrassing” that people had completely written off his team’s chances before yesterday’s game.

The Rebels suffered their heaviest championship defeat against Tipperary since 1988 but Walsh said the performance of his players was “heroic” at stages during the game.

Walsh fumed: “In fairness, we were nothing coming into today’s game in a lot of people’s eyes. We found that embarrassing, that we were considered nothing at all, maybe down in seventh place. We needed to perform – we didn’t need to go blaming anyone or anything like that.