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I headed to Bandon mart on Monday morning, and the first thing I spotted on entering the town was a young fellow holding two hurleys.

Less than 24 hours after Cork’s crushing defeat by Galway, and after two weeks of GAA action that most in Cork would prefer to erase from the mind, there he was grasping his two hurleys, as if he were Teddy McCarthy himself.

On a morning when a fellow would be well entitled to bash his hurley off the roadside, he was standing tall, waiting to answer Cork’s call.