Colin Sheridan: What if we had a rival, breakaway championship?

The GAA's worst nightmare. A rival, breakaway championship. A panacea to every imagined ill. Or would it?

TAKE IT HANDY: Dublin's Cormac Costello in action against Kevin O'Donovan of Cork during Saturday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final at Croke Park. Photo: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

As the birds circled over Croke Park on Saturday evening, their squawking presence gave hope to the possibility that some

Hitchcockian drama might unfold. Alas, the only thing the old Master of Suspense would have been proud of was the mini-psychodrama that played out whereby the Cork footballers, game and resilient, managed to trick those watching into believing this was a contest for anything more than 20 minutes.