The Championship?

Weary and running out of gas, the Kerry footballers and Cork hurlers met their Waterloo in the summer of ’87

Two youngsters clashed in the 1987 All-Ireland minor final, Tipperary v Offaly, who featured in a lot of headlines subsequently. You know them well...

He hasn’t discovered any short cuts. The familiar signposts — Mallow, Buttevant, Charleville — still mark the winding road from Cork to Limerick and John Allen has seen a lot of them in recent months.

We’re in Nowlan Park so we’ll start with the visitor. When I say ‘Kilkenny’ what comes to mind, Seán Óg?

I’ve no problem admitting it.

The week a politician discloses his sexuality to the public, you’d imagine a quiet couple of days would be in order.

Stephen McDonnell can thank his Cork team-mate Jamie Coughlan for the No 3 jersey.

“Into the face of the young man... there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that a hurling fan is about to talk Gaelic football.”

James O’Reilly and his pals on the Ballincollig junior B football team had an idea.