Kildare drive too much for listless Cork

Kildare 1-21 Cork 1-13: Fionn Fitzgerald has a lot to answer for.

Who knows how Cork would have fared in the All-Ireland quarter-finals had the Kerry defender not deprived them of the Munster title in Killarney three weeks ago, but defeat then couldn’t possibly have been as dispiriting as their Round 4A qualifier exit at a near deserted Semple Stadium on Saturday night.

The stadium stood almost naked aside from the 3,000 or so spectators huddled together in two sections of the Old Stand.