Esther McCarthy: Cork v Dublin was an opportunity for a family memory

“We get to spend the day together in Dublin!” Not an utterance you’re likely to hear too often out of the gob of a Cork woman but there you go. 

Later as the boys are settling in in the back of the car, the 10-year-old says sleepily: “I think that was one of the best days of my life.”

We’re trying a new thing as a family this summer — vowing not to murder each other.

It’s an annual thing, something I heard in a podcast, or read somewhere — I don’t know, it’s a minor miracle it stayed in my brain at all, ok, leave me alone.