Cork's inexperience is still visible from time to time, but so, significantly, is the consistency

Can two swallows make a summer? The pitch invasion yesterday in Thurles spoke volumes, supporters in red streaming onto the Semple Stadium field to celebrate 14-man Cork’s Munster SHC semi-final win over Waterford.

An experienced Déise side were overrun by a fresher Cork outfit, 0-23 to 1-15, with the latter absorbing punishment and breaking upfield to tattoo points in a reasonable imitation of counter-punchers everywhere, from the Inter Milan of Herrera to the (even older) Archie Moore.

Nostalgia was a keynote yesterday, because for a while all 33,163 of us in attendance were also in a time machine. Brexit never happened. Trump never happened. The downturn never happened.