Cork still searching for the light in the darkest of hours

Last Tuesday night, Cork hurling seemed to have turned a corner. Evan Sheehan’s injury-time goal against Tipperary looked to have won the Munster U20 championship, only for Jake Morris to rescue the Premier County with a terrific goal at the other end moments later.

If Cork had held out, it might have heralded a brave new dawn for a county suffering a crisis of confidence in the wake of repeated defeats at the sharp end of (various) championships. Instead, it reinforced the perception of Cork as a county which loses more close games than it wins, as it continues to endure one of the longest All-Ireland famines in its history.