Colm O’Neill: Don’t write Cork's epitaph yet

Colm O’Neill believes it’s premature to claim the Cork GAA brand is broken, insisting the time for review is at the end of the season.

O’Neill’s former team-mate and Irish Examiner columnist Derek Kavanagh expressed the concern earlier this month. “One senior All-Ireland across both codes in the last 11 years. Two U21 football titles in the same period. No minor titles. The statistics match our infrastructure. The Cork brand is broken.”

The senior hurlers’ defeat to Tipperary last Sunday, along with their failure to win a round game in Division 1A this spring as well as the relegation of the senior footballers from Division 1 would seem to strengthen Kavanagh’s assertion.