Cork couldn’t conjure vital goal opportunities on miserable All-Ireland outing

To go 58 minutes without creating a meaningful goal opening was oh so telling from a Cork perspective and went a long way in summing up this most miserable of All-Ireland final outings

Shane Kingston scores Cork's only goal past Limerick goalkeeper Nickie Quaid. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Chief among Cork’s final failings — and there were a few, says you — was not so much the lack of green flags mined in the face of Limerick’s constant foraging for and finding of goals, more their inability to even create goal-scoring chances.

This failure was despite Cork having a fourth-minute template to work off after Shane Kingston posted the necessary response to Gearoid Hegarty’s goal strike two minutes earlier.