Kieran Shannon: Cork and Limerick could share four of the next five All-Irelands

From Cork and Limerick each starting the last decade on strike, they’re now both best geared to top this one

A DIFFERENT BEAST: Cork’s Seán O’Leary Hayes wins possession ahead of Kilkenny’s Walter Walsh in Sunday’s semi-final. The Rebels have come a long way in a short space of time. Picture: Inpho/Tommy Dickson

If you do your job so well for long enough, eventually you become the bad guys.

Or at least more people begin rooting for the other crowd than are rooting for you.