‘We just love Cork — people are sound. It’s a great place’

If Cork City players feel pressure going into Sunday’s FAI Cup final, it will be of the welcome kind: The sensation of the hand of history on their shoulders as, with the league title already in the bag, they go in search of the club’s first ever double.

“We drew with Dundalk a couple of weeks ago and it was kind of a make or break game,” Gearóid Morrissey observes.

“If we won, we won the league and if we lost, it was opened up again. We drew and after that game I felt massive relief.