Beginning to appreciate them now?

WE DIDN’T anticipate streamers and party hats, nor cartwheels, when Cork’s captain and coach came in to put words on their year’s work, but beneath Conor Counihan and Graham Canty’s studied dignity, a volcanic sense of vindication must have been bubbling.

Either that or both men are ice cubes.

While many of his colleagues buck-leapt and wept around Croke Park after finally overcoming their September turmoil, Canty looked around and whispered that the press auditorium just seemed that bit nicer a place in victory.