Peadar Healy chats about putting the bottle back in Cork football

That the Cork footballers start 2017 as a second-tier county is moot. Trust is thin on the ground and it’s a long road back to a point where Rebel supporters will back their footballers, something manager Peadar Healy accepts and understands. There are no excuses next season, he says. The answers must come from within.

Peadar Healy is employing construction metaphors as he discusses the task of rebuilding in 2017 the edifice that once was Cork football.

“The field’s ploughed, the site’s cleared now. This year was tough. We started late and we had injuries but I won’t allow any excuses next season. We have a lot to prove to ourselves.”