Coveney and Douglas bid to banish memories of 2017

Last year’s Cork senior hurling championship didn’t go to plan for Douglas. Pre-season favourites, they were beaten by Cork IT, and then failed to come through their second-round game with Killeagh.

As the quest for glory commences again this weekend, manager Willie Coveney admits the pain of “an incredibly disappointing 2017” still stings.

“There is no other way to look at it. Two defeats, and we deserved to be beaten in both. We played in patches, 20 or 30 minutes here and there in every game but we didn’t put a full 60 minutes together.