It’s a question no generation of GAA supporter, certainly one from Cork, would ever have asked itself before: if you had a choice between beating a certain county in the league or beating them in the championship later in the year, which would you take?
For well over a century, it wasn’t even an article of faith as an unquestioned assumption that any championship match trumped any league match in terms of significance.
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