Cork people no longer animated by hurlers’ defeats

“ . . . one vast impacted havoc which the years accrete And slowly heave up, fused and wrecked . . .” Maybe we should get Stephen Edgar to write about Cork hurling, though the first thing to realise about Cork hurling is that the whole problem can’t be taken in at one glance.

It’s just too big, like something out of a Douglas Adams book: Anyone who can collect the entirety of the situation in his mind has enough to do without actually considering a solution.

Getting those constituent parts together is a big enough job.