Anthony Daly: An overdue statement performance from Cork but can they back it up come Championship?

It’s only natural that Cork wouldn’t like Limerick after the heartbreak they’ve endured at their hands over the last few years. Last year’s All-Ireland final hammering was nearly the last straw but there comes a time too when a team has to more or less state loudly that enough is enough.

Cork's Daire O'Leary of Cork is tackled by Conor Boylan of Limerick during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group A match at TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. 

In our Irish Examiner podcast every Monday, one of our standout lines from the introductory montage is taken from that famous, or infamous, Aherlow-Nenagh Tipperary county football final in the early 1990s, which was immortalized by the buzzing commentary of Eddie Moroney, who was subsequently christened 'Effin Eddie'.

‘There’s a small bit of a needle there,’ says Eddie in the introduction. Shortly into yesterday’s game in the Gaelic Grounds, that line came into my head because the air was shot through with the smell of bad blood.