Cork’s defeat means no Munster football final when Páirc Uí Chaoimh re-opens

This braying has become not an occasional phenomenon in Cork GAA but an echo that resounds at every new nadir, this time the defeat of Cork on Sunday by a Tipperary football team missing at least 11 players. As a sign of desperation Cork resorted to putting on a teenager still grappling with the Leaving Certificate.
This is just a random marker of Cork’s ineptitude, which exists here both as a team-specific issue and an indicator of wider problems.