The Cork footballers are ignoring Tomas O Se's criticism in the run-up to the Munster SFC final.

The Kerry great ruffled quite a few Rebel feathers last week with his assessment of the Cork team and their management but selector Ronan McCarthy insists they're solely focussed on delivering a performance in Killarney on Sunday week.

"I can guarantee you one thing, it won't be up on the dressing-room wall," he revealed to The Examiner.

"I think sometimes the media like to hype those things and make more of them. Then afterwards, if you win, it was great motivation, while if you lose nobody mentions it again.

"Really, what we don't want it to become is a distraction for us. And it hasn't. We've left it and gone about our business."

Former Rebel forward James Masters supported O Se's point of view in a series of tweets and McCarthy added: "You'd prefer if it didn't happen, but people have opinions. They're entitled to them.

"In the modern game, with social media, people have outlets to express those opinions that they mightn't have had in the past. But it goes back to the point I've made, that if he'd come out and said something very positive about the team, what difference does it make to us?

"We still have to deliver down in Killarney on Sunday week, and what people say, right or wrong, we can't control.

"I'm not going to add or subtract from what's been said.

"People can write positive things, they can write negative things. At the end of the day it doesn't take away from the fact that we have to go to Killarney and perform.

"I can say no more than that, really."

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