Cork win boosts morale

Roscommon 0-15 Cork 1-14, Kiltoom

Cork's first league outing of 2008 ended in a morale-boosting win for Conor Counihan's side as they accounted for Roscommon at Kiltoom.

Eager for action after the players' strike saw them fail to field teams against Dublin and Meath, a wind-backed Cork led 0-10 to 0-6 at half-time with the impressive Daniel Goulding landing five points.

Ger Heneghan, Senan Kilbride, Gary Cox and Conor Devanney boosted Roscommon's tally.

But despite losing defender Kieran O'Connor to a late dismissal, Cork were steered home by Donnacha O'Connor's 61st-minute goal.