Seán Powter: We feel like we can put it up to the best

TALKING SHOP: Cork's Sean Powter being interviewed by the Irish Examiner's John Fogarty after the victory in Newbridge. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach, Sportsfile

Seán Powter believes this weekend’s break couldn’t come at a better time for a Cork team whose defence features a host of college players.

While MTU Cork men Seán Meehan, Rory Maguire and Tommy Walsh’s Sigerson Cup interests have concluded, Maurice Shanley, Daniel O’Mahony and Shane Merrit face into a semi-final for UCC against Trinity College in Carlow on Wednesday evening. Four of them started in Sunday’s win over Kildare while Meehan was introduced as a substitute.