Cork has hosted its share of Cork/Kerry games over the years, as has Killarney and Tralee, where, this Sunday, in a round six Allianz Football League tie, the old Munster rivals meet again.

IT didn’t get within a roar of the Celtic Tiger and, even during those heady days, a north Cork town lost its biggest industry.

IN early 1977, near where Duhallow and East Kerry are split by the River Blackwater, a small hostelry hosted a low-key meeting with grand ambitions.