Browne raises relegation fears

He was on the last Cork team to play in Division 2 and Alan Browne has no hesitation admitting relegation to the second tier on Sunday would be “an absolute disaster” for the county.

In 1997, as Jimmy Barry-Murphy rebuilt a side that had been obliterated by Limerick in Páirc Uí Chaoimh the summer previous, Cork finished second to Dublin in a division that included the likes of London and Westmeath.

Sixteen years on and Browne says the thought of losing to Clare and dropping to Division 1B is a shuddering one.