How Jack O’Connor helped the Cork hurlers

IT’S a phrase used so often its provenance is lost, probably forever.
Fri, 06 Jul, 2007 - 01:00
Michael Moynihan

This column has heard it claimed by Moycarkey, and by Brooklyn, and by Leeds, but the truth it expresses is incontrovertible.

A good big one always beats a good little one.

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