College honour on the line as UCC meet CIT

Cork SFC (Divisions/Colleges) preliminary round

The Cork senior football championship gets underway this evening, as college sides UCC and Cork IT go head to head, but the teams will be vastly different from those which met in the Sigerson Cup quarter-finals.

UCC, who went on to claim the title, will be without as many as 10 members of the side which began that day. Luke Connolly, David Nation, Alan Cronin, Ian Maguire, Conor Dorman and Brian Shanahan all play for senior clubs in Cork while Kerry stars Brian Kelly, David Culhane, Paul Geaney and Conor Cox may not be available and Tipperary’s Michael Quinlivan is also ruled out ahead of next week’s Munster U21FC final with Cork.