A bright start key to enjoying big match day

I spent a chunk of last Saturday afternoon on the M8 heading south, and one thing impressed me more than the BMW jeep that went past me at a speed of — give it a rough guess — about 700 miles per hour.

That was the number of Cork cars heading north, or more specifically, the cars bearing red and white flags fluttering as they surged up the road towards Dublin.

It’s fair to presume that many of those cars were heading up for yesterday’s game, particularly as many of them appeared north of Mitchelstown, and their earliness was unsurprising given the warnings all last week about a new road layout at Newland’s Cross.