Cracking the code at Croker

CORK hurling boss John Allen compared this year’s Munster final to The Da Vinci Code. He talks bestsellers and boycotts with Michael Moynihan ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final with Waterford.

WAS the GAA’s best-known Dan Brown fan the victim of a conspiracy in the last two weeks? John Allen compared this year’s Munster Final to The Da Vinci Code: that was before several Cork players came back injured to county training, then there was the mysterious quarter-final draw pitting Cork against Waterford ... Allen was neither complaining nor speculating this week, however. Just getting on with it.

“We’ve only had the lads for two weeks since the club championships, and we did have a lot of injuries - Wayne Sherlock, John Browne, Pat Mulcahy and Neil Ronan were all hurt - but they should all be okay.”