Four New Year's resolutions for Cork hurling

Their dominance of Munster and the impact of Mark Coleman and Darragh Fitzgibbon these last two years provides hope but what counters those positives is how the team is in the bad habit of repeating itself.

Fourteen years. Depending on how you see it, the last blow of Paud O’Dwyer’s whistle on July 29 or the clock striking midnight next Monday extends Cork’s wait for an All-Ireland title to 14 years, two short of the all-time famine between 1903 and ‘19.

Now going into a fourth year, Brian Cody might be enduring his longest spell without having his hands on the Liam MacCarthy but Kilkenny have never have had to go hungry as long as Cork currently are.