'Total performance': Cork manager Noel Furlong full of praise for dominant Cork minors

The winners clipped 1-19 from play, with nine different players in red finding the target.

Cork players celebrate. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Cork minor hurling manager Noel Furlong praised his team’s “total performance”, expressing delight at how his charges rose to the occasion on the evening it mattered most.

Cork were led only once during this All-Ireland final, from the third to the fifth minute, with their own lead never less than three from the 11th minute onward.