‘If he gets a sniff at all, he’ll go for it’: Connolly is Cork’s ace

'Alan Connolly brings something different'

Alan Connolly of Cork in action against Conor Delaney of Kilkenny. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

At just 20 years young and despite starting on the bench for Cork’s opening two games in the Munster round-robin, it is Alan Connolly who sits atop the championship’s goal-scoring chart.

No hurling follower should need to spend long studying the accompanying table to know that Connolly is by far the most inexperienced of the goal-hungry quintet, the Blackrock youngster handed his first championship start as recently as last month’s Round 4 Munster outing away to Waterford.