Crunching the numbers of Eamon Fitzmaurice’s dominance over Cork

Five Munster finals, four wins and one draw; Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s championship managerial record against Cork is almost as good as it gets.

Those results form almost half of the Kingdom’s 12-game unbeaten record in the province since Fitzmaurice took over from Jack O’Connor.

Yet, it was only four years ago that James O’Donoghue told a story of how locals in Killarney were so pessimistic about Kerry’s chances of beating their age-old rivals that they were refusing to make the spin down the N22.