Denis Walsh on Cork: ‘Those young lads... nothing seems to faze them’

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

A native of Ballynoe, a former dual senior with Cork’s hurlers and footballers, he takes a pen lying on my notebook and sketches the lie of his land. “We are in Dungarvan,” he says.

Then he dots the places that count, fanning out back towards the River Blackwater.