John Cleary: 'Recent Cork resilience will quell consistency debate for now'

For the moment, John Cleary’s group are happily resident in that sweet spot of having achieved a long-held goal, while also knowing that the first searching questions of summer are still a good few weeks off in the distance

GAFFER: Cork Manager John Cleary sees progress. Pic: Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile

For the moment, Cork football is free of all usual shackles. A temporary pause on pressure. A pin stuck in familiar spring pessimism. Nobody will be calling for a review of this, that, or the other for a while yet.

Promotion has proven a wonderful cure of all ails.