Michael Moynihan: Keep up analysis of Corkness. We like to be talked about

The reality is that Cork people don’t need outside validation when it comes to sport. It’s as simple as that

Cork's Mark Coleman dejected after the All-Ireland SHC final loss to Limerick at Croke Park. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Many years ago, when we were trying to grow our hair like Morrissey — Stephen, not Tom — and sneak into the cinema to see Excalibur, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was a big hit with the intellectuals amongst us.

One of the books in that series features the inhabitants of Krikkit, a planet cut off by a mysterious cloud and inhabited by a people who can’t comprehend that other civilisations exist until the momentous day they emerge from that cloud and see the enormous variety of the surrounding galaxies. And say to themselves, ‘It’ll have to go.’