Recent pain counts for little, says John Shanahan

Cork v Kerry Tonight: Pairc Ui Rinn, 7.30pm

Overrun last March, narrowly edged out the two years previous, humiliated in the spring of 2009 and ’11 and dare we mention the 2010 Munster final defeat by Tipperary on home soil.

There is simply no dressing it up, the recent output from Kerry’s U21 production line has been nothing short of abysmal.