Rebels have plenty to prove, admits Kerrigan

As many would have guessed it, Cork’s journey home from Croke Park last Saturday night was as long as it was quiet.

Conor Counihan’s management team will discuss the team’s shortcomings against Dublin in more depth with the panel at training this evening but Paul Kerrigan believes the silence spoke volumes about how serious the players were taking the defeat.

“Fellas knew themselves,” he says. “We were comprehensively beaten and that rarely happens to us at this stage so that was disappointing.