FOGARTY FORUM: Hurling needs to mend fences before tackling league issues

This column returns today to what you may gather has become a hobby-horse of ours — the structure of the Allianz Hurling League. Well, we did we warn you last week.

That Cork have sank from a terribly shallow Division 1A has caused ripples, but more so outside the county than within it.

Beyond the boundaries, there is a school of thought that Cork are too big to go down, but not in the Premier League sense of being too good a team. No, as in too powerful a county. As in Frank Murphy can wave a wand and all will be rosy again.