Enda McEvoy: Post Limerick's peak, Cork's sense of mission can navigate the peril
LAST MEN STANDING: Alan Connolly of Cork during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A final match between Tipperary and Cork at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Given the rush from all quarters to declare that this year’s model will be the dazzling gal in red and white, a rush of such Gadarene proportions that folk normally as temperate as the bookies are going 3/1 Clare tomorrow, let’s start by getting in a caveat so screamingly obvious it barely requires mention.
A fortnight ago Cork saw off opponents who were dead on the table before the half-hour mark, a crowd who far from finding themselves forced to punch above their weight in the closing quarter as the game ran away from them found themselves forced to punch above their weight in the opening quarter as the game ran away from them. It is not the most yardsticky of yardsticks.
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