Breaking bread together may break hostilities

Next Friday there’s a lunch being held in Cork to commemorate the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest feats in the history of Irish sport, the All-Ireland senior double of 1990 won by the men in red and white.

When I say it’s timely, I’m not being smart about the anniversary. It’s often the case in Ireland that we don’t commemorate events in any way apart from meeting at funerals, and unfortunately two of the participants in those events quarter of a century ago, Michael McCarthy and John Kerins, are no longer with us.

On that basis it’s good to have the men who made history in one room again. A little greyer and more padded than they were that summer, but recognisable all the same. The fact that the Dessie Fitzgerald Injury Fund and the Friends of Jamie Wall will benefit from the event makes it all the more welcome.