Hodnett: CIT have never feared skull and crossbones

The poor relation as far as third-level football on Leeside is concerned? Liam Hodnett isn’t biting.

The Cork IT Sigerson Cup selector doesn’t buy into the argument, irrespective of however many times it is thrown at him, that UCC hold some semblance of a superiority complex over their third-level neighbours.

Playing numbers may be stronger. Household names, greater. Trophy cabinet, far more plentiful, but Hodnett is adamant CIT have never feared the skull and crossbones emblazoned jersey, nor have they ever viewed themselves as the poor relation — a theory that will again be tested in today’s Sigerson Cup opener at the Mardyke.