Kieran Shannon: Cork's Croke Park meltdown shows they must face uncomfortable truths

They can’t deflect or hide away from this one.

Last year, when this column for one viewed Cork’s collapse against Tipperary as a systems failure that demanded an all-round forensic review, it seemed to be treated within the group as a freakish one-off and by the incoming management as something not to overly-dwell on as it hadn’t happened on their beat.

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