Cork to progress

Gaelic Games:Laois v Cork Today, throw-in - 3pm O'Moore Park, Portlaoise

TWO TEAMS with conflicting hopes of progressing. Cork proved plenty of people wrong with the stern test of Tipperary and might well have pulled off a shock.

The challenge for Laois is to rise again after the defeat to Antrim, and manager Brendan Fennelly admits they must throw caution to the wind. We'll see how close that gets them.

LAOIS: P Mullaney; JA Delaney, B Campion, C Dunne; J Fitzpatrick, M Whelan, B Galvin; J Walsh, S Burke; N Costelloe, G Reddin, W Hyland; B Dunne, N Foyle, J Brophy.

CORK: D Óg Cusack; S O'Neill, E Cadogan, S McDonnell; J Gardiner, W Egan, B Murphy; T Kenny, P Cronin; B O'Connor, B Cooper, N McCarthy; L Farrell, P O'Sullivan, P Horgan.

Referee: J McGrath (Westmeath).