Con earning dividends for fresh approach

ON THE surface, Saturday in Temple Hill was business as usual in the All-Ireland League.

Cork Con were hosting St. Mary’s College, and the requisite niceties were all being observed: between the club presidents and between those who’d played in the first encounter between the two sides at that level, many of whom were present in the clubhouse.

A little heavier, a little stiffer, the men of twenty years ago mingled easily in the bar over pints and a tasty chicken curry, arguing the toss with a good deal less vehemence twenty years on.