National Cup semi-final storylines: A tale of two cities, and Tralee
It's 10 years they’ve had it like this now: the Cup weekend back in Cork and a festival of hoops moving between the grand houses of the game, known to the locals as The Hall, the Mardyke and The Shed, though the rest of the country would know the latter more commonly as the Neptune Stadium.
The switch was initially born from a quirk of history and the luck of the draw. For the 2010 Men’s Superleague Cup semi-finals, then reigning league and Cup champions UCC Blue Demons were paired against their old nemesis Neptune, who just happened to be celebrating the silver jubilee of their stadium.
