Ronan McCarthy: Cork football has got to be more ambitious

“Are we happy to be winning one Munster championship every four or five years? Whether we won today or not, that question is actually still there. We have got to be better than one every five or six years with a last-minute goal.”

Cork manager Ronan McCarthy says a negative mindset in the county has to change. ‘Are we happy to be winning one Munster championship every four or five years? Whether we won today or not, that question is actually still there.’ Picture: Inpho/Laszlo Geczo

Cork have got to become more ambitious than being a county which is satisfied with one Munster title every five or six years, manager Ronan McCarthy has said.

Yesterday was Cork’s fourth Munster final defeat in-a-row and seventh in eight years. This latest final disappointment means the gap to the county's most recent provincial success will now extend to nine years in 2021, with McCarthy commenting afterward that it's not acceptable for Cork to have won only six Munster championships over the past 24 years.