County stars lead UCC charge past CIT

UCC 1-19 - CORK IT 0-12: UCC’s class was always going to be the telling factor. And so it proved, even if it took a little longer than expected to boil to the surface.

Tom Kingston’s panel, as had been well documented in advance of this fixture, is awash with inter-county talent. It was simply a case of how he would line them out.

In all bar the full-back set, UCC had a regular inter-county starter in every line. There was Waterford’s Conor Gleeson and All-Star Mark Coleman at 6 and 7, Darragh Fitzgibbon at midfield, Michael Breen at centre-forward, and left corner-forward Shane Kingston. That’s not even mentioning Kilkenny’s John Power or Tom Devine of Waterford at left-half and full-forward, respectively.