Long road ahead to glory for Cork minors, says cautious Denis Ring

Cork minor manager Denis Ring believes too much can be read into the county’s clean sweep of underage hurling titles last summer.

On the final weekend of August, Cork swept to glory in all seven underage hurling tournaments, including the All-Ireland U16, U16B, and the Eugene Carey U17 event.

From tonight’s starting team to face Waterford in the Munster MHC quarter-final (Walsh Park, throw-in 6.30pm), three players — Ger Collins, Evan Sheehan and Sean O’Leary Hayes — have been pulled from the successful 2015 U16 team, while six were members of the U17 panel — Eoghan Clifford, Cian O’Mahony, Stephen Condon, John O’Sullivan, John Cooper, and Josh Beausang.