The questions hanging over Cork's hurlers after league campaign

Pic: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

“I think we learned a lot about ourselves,” replied Kieran Kingston, when asked what the Cork hurlers can take from their five-week league campaign.

It was a league in which Cork suffered more defeats than they mined victories, their final tally of two wins - one of which was a lucky escape from Mullingar - insufficient to book them a place in the quarter-finals.