Time for Cork’s backseat drivers to change direction

It was a small thing but it told us a lot.

Amid the sense of anticipation triggered by the sight of the Cork football team bus navigating through the crowds and pulling into Fitzgerald Stadium for the Munster final replay, this column was nonetheless struck by the prominence and placing of non-performance personnel.

Sitting on the third seat on the right to our nearest window was Frank Murphy, one seat ahead of county administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.