Or are they? As Cork gear up for Sunday’s All-Ireland three-in-a-row bid, our writers spoke to three heroes from the 1976-78 Rebel hat-trick, and discovered things were a lot different back then.

Don’t mention the war, we agreed. “I’ll meet on one condition”, laughed Waterford’s Jim Greene.

IT was Kevin Heffernan and Mick O’Dwyer who ushered in the era of the manager as we know it today.

Cork enjoyed a remarkable success against Kilkenny in 1966. But the Cats would have their revenge three years later, Michael Ellard reflects.