Seamus Harnedy: Pressure is on for Cork

The league opener didn’t go too well for Seamus Harnedy. The drudgery of pre-season wasn’t proof against an early tweak that sent him to the sideline. He found the net in the interregnum between injury and substitution, though.

“Against Galway, the first ball that came my way went down the line,” he says. “I made a burst to get it and I felt a bit of a tweak or a tug in my leg. That was only four or five minutes in, my first instinct was just to run it off in the next few minutes, but unfortunately I couldn’t.”

Cork management were about to take him off but events intervened. A long ball into the Galway square, Patrick Horgan contested it . . . “the ball broke to me and I didn’t have to move too far.