Cork Premier SHC final: Consistency is fine but Robert Downey wants a medal

Well acquainted with walking away from the showpiece event empty-handed, Robert Downey is hoping for a different view on Sunday.

Glen Rovers’ Robert Downey clears from Midleton’s Luke O’Farrell during the 2018 Cork SHC at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. They face each other in the final on Sunday. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

It’s all fine and dandy wearing the title of Cork’s most consistent club team, but at some stage, preferably Sunday coming, this group of Glen Rovers hurlers would desperately like to add to their county medal haul.

Robert Downey, unlike the majority of his Glen teammates, has yet to play on a county final winning team. Part of the extended panel for the 2016 victory over Erin’s Own, it wasn’t until the following season that the then teenager broke onto the club’s flagship team.