Breathing room for Cork as Kildare losing streak continues

Cork's current standing of fifth was impossible to envisage before the two corner-backs provided unlikely heroics at the other end of the field to their stationing.

BREATHING ROOM: Ian Maguire of Cork in action against Mick O'Grady of Kildare. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Allianz FL Division 1: Cork 2-15 Kildare 3-9 

Whenever the story of Cork’s 2024 season comes to be penned, it’ll be a pair of corner-backs that are credited with steering the narrative and the county’s fortunes in a far more positive direction than where they had been previously headed.