Mark Collins believes promotion can be Cork’s starting base

The county’s stay in Division 3 was a brief one last year, Ronan McCarthy’s charges spending just a single season in the league’s third tier after being relegated in 2019

Mark Collins with Maire O’Callaghan at last week’s Rebels’ Bounty Draw. Club players can’t be left waiting until October for championship action, he says. Picture: Larry Cummins

Cork’s Mark Collins has said promotion to Division 1 of the Allianz League is a “huge target” of theirs, should the competition get off the ground in the coming weeks.

The county’s stay in Division 3 was a brief one last year, Ronan McCarthy’s charges spending just a single season in the league’s third tier after being relegated from Division 2 in 2019.