What goes around comes around...

Cork and Galway hurlers meet today in a reprise of last year’s thunderous qualifiers encounter. But the history between the two goes back a little further than that. Michael Moynihan spoke to protagonists in two earlier clashes this decade.

BACK IN 2002, Galway faced Cork in Thurles. The Leesiders had most of their 1999 All-Ireland winning team in situ and were playing in their favourite venue, but they were in disarray. And Galway knew it.

“We knew if we got at them we could exploit the fact they were having problems,” says Cathal Moore, Galway wing-back that day. “But that became a watershed for Cork because they couldn’t go any lower – they were humiliated on the day really.