On the day after St Patrick’s Day in 2007, Cork travelled to Ballygalget on the Ards peninsula to take on the Down hurlers in Division 1 of the National League. Everybody expected an annihilation, especially when Down had lost their opening two games to Clare and Offaly by an aggregate margin of 34 points. Except that didn’t happen. In fact, the opposite – a massive shock – almost did.
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