Cork firepower can quell Banner’s desire

Let’s get the moany bits, all the more relevant after the week that was in it, out of the way quickly.

Of course the Munster and Leinster finals should not be taking place on the same day. Hurling has only two of them. They shouldn’t have to share a stage, and that they did so in 1991 was due to the Tipperary/Cork replay in Thurles.

The game of the gods, as Seamus Leahy put it so lyrically in The Tipp Revival, although to many people it remains the Day of Yer Man in the Wheelchair.