Brendan Martin becomes obsession for Cork ladies

Winning pretty, winning ugly. It doesn’t matter to them at this stage. So long as Brendan Martin is sitting at the front of the bus on the journey home to Cork on Monday afternoon, they’re a content bunch.

They’ve done shoot-outs, 14-point annihilations and 10-point comebacks.

Sunday was a struggle, a grind, an exercise in outliving the opposition rather than outclassing them.