Cleary backs young guns to step up

Cork U21 football manager John Cleary does not feel Damien Cahalane or Brian Hurley would be overawed by making the step up to senior championship football.

Conor Counihan’s side will be named tonight and the Castlehaven pair are believed to have good chances of being selected for their championship debuts. Cleary, a Haven clubmate of Cahalane and Hurley, has worked with them at senior club level as well as with the Cork U21 side, and feels they won’t have any problems settling in surrounded by more senior players.

“I think Galway might have made the mistake last weekend of throwing in too many together,” he said.