Cracking Cody’s code

HERE’S A prediction, and you can chisel it in stone: Some day, right being right, the good citizens of Kilkenny will erect a monument to Brian Cody.

A big monument it will be too, befitting such a big character, and befitting also – given hurling’s place in the hearts of the people of this city and county – it will be placed right in the heart of the city itself, somewhere along the route followed now on seven occasions in the past decade by the parade of Cody’s latest All-Ireland winning team.

That, however, is for the future; in the present, the reign of Cody and his all-conquering Cats continues and tomorrow in Croke Park they take on Cork in the All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final, an historic five-in-a-row firmly in the crosshairs.