Dublin can rise to the occasion against Cork

After Dublin’s quarter-final win against Limerick, I laughed to myself when I saw some of the lazy journalism splurged across many of the papers.

One of the dominant themes was Dublin finally cracking their Croke Park ‘hoodoo’, as if the hurlers hadn’t won a game there since the GAA purchased the land back in 1913.

It’s only two years since Dublin won their first Leinster title since 1961. In 2011, Dublin won their first league title since 1939. Then, after losing an All-Ireland semi-final, a Leinster final and a league game in 18 months, suddenly it’s a hoodoo. That kind of stuff drives me crazy.