Timeline of league ‘win’ still a mystery

JUST for the record, the last train out of Dublin’s Heuston Station to Cork tonight is at nine o’clock.

Some readers will, no doubt, be puzzled as to why such an apparently mundane sliver of information should appear in today’s sports pages. Others, maybe those with a few more years on the clock, will have read that with a wry smile.

When Cork and Dublin face off in the league at HQ this evening it will stir memories of a bizarre meeting 24 years ago, of a National League quarter-final when Barney Rock ‘scored’ the winner at a time when Cork were already in their civvies and on the way home.