The hard stuff dreams are made of

You could argue that few Cork City players gave more to the cause of getting the club to this Sunday’s FAI Cup final than Danny Morrissey, the striker who experienced almost as much pain as pleasure when scoring the match-winning goal against Bray Wanderers in the semi-final.

“My hamstring had just got a bit tight and I’d signalled to the bench that I was struggling,” he explains.

“And literally two minutes later I scored the goal and that’s when the leg totally seized up and I had to come off. And the same thing happened in the league against Pats after scoring again — the exact same thing. It’s strange.