Pat Ryan: 'I’d be straight up about it – it’s false pity'

“I’d be straight up about it – it’s false pity. Nobody gives two fecks about Cork if you’re not from Cork and rightly so".

FALSE PITY: Pat Ryan felt some of the kindness wasn’t exactly sincere. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Tea and sympathy. Pat Ryan has tasted enough this year.

A lot of it has been genuine. For his fallen clubman Teddy McCarthy. For Sarsfields whose ecstasy of a first senior county title in nine years last month turned to agony three days later when Storm Babet lay waste to their playing facilities.