Why Cork must walk easy when the jug is full

THE similarities are too obvious to ignore. In 1990 Cork went into a campaign desperate for one particular rival.

We had won the 1989 All-Ireland, somewhat luckily if truth be told, against Mayo. But it was Meath we wanted. Needed.

The 89 triumph had lifted a weight off our shoulders. I might have been the only one, but I had a strong sense in the spring of 1990 that Cork would not be stopped, even if Sean Boylan’s side came calling.