It is by a distance the most frequent face-off of the new millennium, with 26 championship clashes already since Cork partied like it’s 1999. Kieran Shannon has crunched the numbers from all those games, observed the trends — and how both camps might try to buck them this evening.

ROUND TWO, nineteen years on. Dr Crokes of Killarney don’t have happy memories of their last visit to Cork for a Munster club championship game.

THANKS but no thanks, that was the reaction yesterday from Kerry manager Gerry Molyneaux to the recent motion adopted by Congress, allowing weaker hurling counties the option of reinforcing their squad with up to five outside players, under certain conditions.

PEOPLE often wonder, what makes Nemo Rangers such a great club?