We’ve seen Dr Jekyll. Can Cork conceal Mr Hyde?

In the eight minutes and 56 seconds he spoke to the written press after yesterday’s Munster football final, Brian Cuthbert advised on five occasions how nobody of a football persuasion in Cork should be high-fiving their way into work this morning.

If he wasn’t bidding to convince the anaemic following in his own county that the Rebel footballers are a project with high ambition worth sticking with, he could have been on the coach ride home talking to his own players.

Yesterday’s thoroughly engaging Munster football final was the one many Cork followers had given up trying to find.