Classic lifted my spirits

IT’S not often that gaelic football makes it into this column, and even then, as happened last week, it’s rarely complimentary. So, a change.

Classic lifted my spirits

It being a rare summer Sunday afternoon off (covering the North Cork Premier junior hurling championship in Mallow, but that didn’t start until 6pm), the sun making a very welcome appearance, I could have headed for Doneraile and a fourball. I would have too, if it had been any other football match that was on – I like my sport, but prefer to play than to watch.

So I tuned into RTÉ instead for the Cork/Kerry All-Ireland senior football semi-final replay, and did so with some trepidation. It wasn’t just that (mea culpa) I feared annihilation by what I was sure would be a fired-up Kerry team bent on finally exorcising this annoying Cork demon. It was more that I feared mayhem, bedlam and a continuation of some of the ugliness of last week. Well, I should have counted on the true character of these superb representatives of two great sporting counties, because I was wrong, on both counts.

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