Yes, yes, and yes again.”So wrote Barry Coughlan in this paper after Cork Con ended Shannon’s five-in-a-row hopes in 1999. There’s hardly a better case study for the health of the All-Ireland League than Cork Con against Shannon. Tom Hayes won four AILs with Shannon, captaining them to the latter two before chasing the pro dream to England in 2005. “The quality now is better than anything I played 13 or 14 years ago. CORK CON: L O’Connell; JJ O’Neill, G Higgins, N Kenneally, R Jermyn; A Moynihan, G Bradley; G Duffy, V O’Brien, D Murphy; B Hayes, J McSwiney; E Mintern, R O’Neill, L Cahill.

Source: Irish Examiner October 08, 2018 03:45 UTC