The time to write off Cork is never

Cork have done this before, more or less, and on the basis they may do it again, Cork being Cork and hurling being hurling, we’ll begin by covering our posteriors.

So: a quarter of a century ago Tomás Mulcahy and Ger Cunningham and the rest of them travelled to Nowlan Park on a windy Easter Monday for a National League semi-final replay with Wexford.