Cork content to make a point

Conor Counihan expressed himself happy enough to be making the long journey home with a point in the bag and, while they could have left with nothing, they really should have departed with two.

It was that kind of afternoon.

The visitors named a strong selection, one admittedly weakened by the late failure of Colm O’Neill and Patrick Kelly to pass fitness tests, but they were facing a side operating without its centrifugal force.