Harty Cup coaches claim Cork quality on the rise

Two Cork colleges clash in today’s Harty Cup (Munster Post Primary U18½AHC) semi-final, St Colman’s College from Fermoy and Midleton CBS.

That this combination is newsworthy tells you a lot about hurling in Cork right now, of course.

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a variety of Cork schools routinely appeared in the critical stages of the top Munster Colleges competition, but the Colman’s-Midleton match-up is being taken as a possible green shoot of recovery after years of disappointment, rather than a verification of the natural order.