Can Cork control those eternal upstarts?

Sunday’s football final has been billed as one between self-confidence and self-doubt, between audacity and conservatism. True or false, asks Dara Ó Cinnéide

THE MOTTO on the coat of arms of County Down is Absque Labore Nihil or ‘Nothing Without Labour’. I don’t know how popular that motto is among the people of Down but it certainly seems singularly unsuited to the county’s football tradition.

‘Everything with ease’ might be a more suitable maxim for a county whose infrequent adventures in the limelight are always undertaken with a swaggering self-confidence and disregard for reputation or pedigree.