FOR the second week in a row, we have had the winning manager in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final almost having to justify his team’s superiority, except in this case Liam Sheedy was openly sympathetic to the plight of the Limerick players, genuinely believing that a 24-point hammering wasn’t an accurate reflection of their ability.

JOE HARTNETT, Cork hurling star of the 1950s, died yesterday in Blackpool.

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

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.