Cork and Waterford. The curtain-raiser tomorrow where a few years back it would have been the feature event.

It was an hour or so after the Cork/Tipp semi-final last month and we were hanging around outside the Blackrock clubhouse when a gentleman in a blue and gold jersey was heard to utter the following words.

There is only one place to start. Croke Park, July 18, 1976.

Pete Finnerty had a neat way of summing up Galway’s failings a few years back.

So here it is at last.

In one of the very best episodes of Seinfeld, it turns out that among the members of Elaine’s aerobics class is the dashing, handsome and ostentatiously eligible John F Kennedy junior.

Liam Dunne may have played the game on the edge himself but as Wexford manager he will demand total discipline

Declan Ryan faces a big summer and needs to show he has learned from past errors if Tipp are to prosper.

Here’s an interesting question. Granted, it may be a little too deep and existential, not to mention downright unanswerable, for a Saturday morning, but let that pass.

They’re a promising young team, they’re on an upward curve, they have their best days ahead of them, they’re managed by a man who saw it all and did it all during his own playing days and tomorrow in Thurles they face a team who’ve seen it all and done it all over the past couple of seasons.