Life goes on in Dubai but Acheson's Peter heart will be in Thurles

“Life is good,” reports Peter Acheson down the phone-line from the United Arab Emirates.

Even better, he says, if the wonders of streaming Tipp FM provides him with evidence this evening that Tipperary are scalping Cork for a second time in three years.

That he won’t be soldiering with them doesn’t gnaw as much at the former captain as it would have last year but for this evening at least his heart won’t lie in his Dubai apartment.