Rebels determined to take care of business in Belfast

Rob Downey will visit Belfast for the first time this weekend.

His Cork side takes on Antrim at Corrigan Park on Saturday in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter final.

Downey watched Antrim win the McDonagh Cup final last weekend and was impressed.

"I only watched it at home, but just looking on they're a very well-balanced side. Both their backs and they've some fantastic forwards. Household names like Neil McManus and a couple more.

"And I suppose going up there as well it will be a hostile enough environment. It's a small field and I think tickets sold out in an hour so it'll be packed out as well.

"Their confidence will be up as well because of obviously after the Joe McDonagh Cup Final and they'll bring a big support. We need to be on our game if we're to turn them over. "

Downey says there will be absolutely no complacency in the Antrim camp.

"We can't really look too far forward otherwise we'll slip up. To be honest, all our focus and preparation has been on Antrim the last number of weeks. We just hope we can get over the line.

"At the end of the day Antrim deserve to be in the All-Ireland series. They won the Joe McDonagh which was a fantastic game that could have gone either way. As I said, they have some brilliant players. Keelan Molloy, Neil McManus, their free' taker (Conal Cunning) is another fantastic player.

"We'll have our work cut out for us and if you even only look at the Westmeath-Wexford match recently, you wouldn't have expected Westmeath to draw with Wexford. So, yeah, we need to be on our game big-time to avoid a slip-up."

Cork have enjoyed a serious reversal of fortune in this year's championship.

They dragged themselves off the ropes with fine back to back wins over Waterford and Tipperary.

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