25 hallmarks of the real Cork hurling fan ...

Consider yourself a self-respecting Rebel die-hard? Not unless you meet these criteria.

1) Every time Cork play a championship game up the country, you have to stop yourself from going to the Silver Springs Hotel for breakfast that morning. The team meets there to get the bus to the game? Really? Sure, you’re just having a coffee . . .

2) You know that Carlow native, Mark Mullins, captained Cork when Limerick beat them heavily in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, in the 1996 Munster hurling championship. Of course you do. But you also know that the player who became the de facto captain when Mullins was called ashore was a teenager, who made his debut the same day — Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.