Shorter off-season has Cork City primed for fast start to WNL campaign 

“We only had two weeks off before going into the gym,” noted Eva Mangan, the new captain at just 19.

NEW SEASON: Tim Clancy, manager, Cork City FC; Cian Coleman, captain, men's senior team; Eva Managan, women's senior team captain and Danny Murphy, manager of the Women's senior team. Pic Credit: Brian Lougheed

Relatively recent history has conditioned Danny Murphy into attaching caveats to assessing President’s Cup final losers.

Cork City's trip to Tolka Park 12 months ago was Murphy’s first game of his first full season but the double-holders Shelbourne were nursing a defeat to Athlone in the curtain-raiser.