Cork get back to the script as Déise exit Munster stage

As a sequel, it wouldn’t match up to The Godfather II.

Come to that, it wouldn’t match up to Cork-Waterford II in the 2007 All-Ireland quarter-final replay, but the men in red won’t be complaining, having eased into the Munster semi-final with a facile win yesterday in Thurles.

Cork were well over their opponents, with manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy precise in identifying the key difference between this game and the first encounter. Elmore Leonard used to say that attitude plays a part, and Barry-Murphy agreed: “We made a number of changes but from our point of view, I thought the players showed a much better attitude.