Abbey Island can be reached in just a few steps across the beach at Derrynane, Co Kerry.

The late Con Houlihan had “an extraordinary pride of place”.

IT ENDED with five points between them - 1-21 to 1-16 - though chances are neither Cork nor Tipperary know how exactly it ended up that way.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow.