‘Hero’ ready to finally take centre stage for Cork

FINALLY Cork captain Kieran Murphy is centre stage for a Rebel-Déise clash.

For far too long the 23-year-old feels he’s watched from the stands or kicked his heels in envy from the dug-out as hurling’s newest, most riveting rivalry grabbed the imagination of the GAA fraternity over the last four years.

A season doesn’t seem to pass when Cork and Waterford fail to produce an epic and former Cork coach John Allen might have had this most remarkable of modern rivalries in mind when once describing hurling as “the great unscripted drama”.