Jerry O'Connor has launched an astonishing attack on those who have been quick to write Cork off as a spent force in the wake of last Sunday's Munster SHC semi-final defeat to Tipperary. Speaking on Wednesday, the Rebel County midfielder expressed his hope to "make people like that suffer" before the summer is out. "I'm sick of listening to crap like that (about Cork being past it) to be honest," he blasted. "Pardon the French but to be listening to the like of that . . . "You have Sean Og (O hAilpin) there, a man that has played more hurling and trained harder than anyone on the panel and he's still raring for road. You tell him that he's tired or over the hill and he'll tell you a different story. I don't believe that at all." The Newtownshandrum clubman revealed his annoyance at being insulted by a Tipperary supporter in Pairc Ui Chaoimh after the game and talked about how some motorists had taunted him as he left the ground. "I was walking out of the field after the game on Sunday and happened to be talking to a fellow and minding my own business. "A Tipp supporter came up and he said: 'I think ye had better go on strike again.' Horrible comments like that will be kept in the back of the head again. "By God, if we get another chance, hopefully we'll make people like that suffer." Tweet

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