If Cork complete the fabled three-in-a-row on Sunday, they will have achieved it with only 17 starters this season. But, as Diarmuid O’Flynn discovered, when you have exceptional players, they can take you a long way.

CORK champions Blackrock, cast in the now too-familiar role of underdogs, face Clare’s top dogs Sixmilebridge in Ennis tomorrow in the AIB Munster Club hurling semi-final hell bent on victory.