Eoin O’Neill: Cork quintet to miss opening league games

Cork footballers Eoin Cadogan, Alan O’Connor, Jamie O’Sullivan, and the Hurley brothers, Brian and Michael, will miss the county’s opening two league fixtures, selector Eoin O’Neill has confirmed.

Cadogan (Achilles tendon), O’Sullivan (groin), and Brian Hurley (hamstring) all went under the knife in 2016 and none will feature in Cork’s opening Division 2 games against Galway this Sunday and Kildare the week after.

Michael Hurley, absent during Cork’s McGrath Cup campaign, is another on the treatment table, with a hip injury. Alan O’Connor, meanwhile, is being withheld until later in the league.