Cork to the fore at Ireland training

PUTTING A CORK IN IT: Chiedozie Ogbene, Adam Idah, Caoimhín Kelleher, and John Egan, all from Cork, chat following Ireland’s training session at PGA Catalunya Resort in Girona, Spain, yesterday. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

“Irish by birth, Cork by the grace of God,” noted one Roy Keane many years ago.

Sometimes it seems you can take the man out of Cork but you can’t take Cork out of the man.