Brian MacMahon, wearing the red vest of County Cork, finished 3rd in yesterday`s GloHealth National Inter Counties Cross Country at the Palace Grounds, Tuam, County Galway. This was the first inter counties since the cross country season changes and it must be said that the future of the inter counties looks very bleak indeed with very small fields in all events: junior women 11, junior men 13, senior women 18, senior men 37 and only two county teams in each race.