Cork footballers need Leeside legends on the sideline

Kerry have plenty to work on too, given they could have shipped at least three goals.

Nobody died, as Paul Kerrigan succinctly put it afterwards, standing outside the Cork dressing room in Fitzgerald Stadium, writes Peter McNamara.

The Rebels had just been humbled, again, by Kerry and the Nemo Rangers man was obviously gutted. However, Kerrigan retained the perspective of a character to match his years of experience as an inter-county senior footballer.