Enda McEvoy: Overflying Kyle Hayes, asphyxiating Cian Lynch in traffic on Cork must-do list

Sooner or later Micheál Donoghue’s new-model Galway will surprise us, and simultaneously not surprise us in the slightest, by flooring the favourites in a big match.

BALANCING ACT: Cork need to find the sweet spot between having a cut at Limerick and not leaving themselves too open. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

AS befits one of the savviest people on the planet, Richie Hogan’s autobiography Whatever It Takes, published last year, is two cuts above the usual fare. MacCarthy Cup haute cuisine as opposed to intermediate club pabulum.

Not a shock. After all, this is a former teenage world champion handballer, the possessor of a masters in business administration and a chap who six months before the Leaving Cert took up history as an eighth honours subject – well, why not? - and got an A1. Also in his younger days he wrote to the Bishop of Ossory, and then – well, again, why not? – to the big man in Rome, imploring them to redraw the parish boundaries in Kilkenny so he could hurl for Bennettsbridge.