Daire Connery: 'The Cork public were crying out for a win, and thank God we were able to deliver'

An emotional Daire Connery of Cork celebrates with Feargal Condon. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Cork wing-back Daire Connery ended Saturday night’s game with three points and an All-Ireland medal.

It went some way to ease “a lot of hurt” from previous defeats with Cork, said the big Na Piarsaigh clubman: “We said it at the start of the year, we weren’t going to be looking at the past, we’d be looking to make our own history.