‘We’ve a few things to straighten out with Tipp’

Two journeys come to an end tomorrow evening in Limerick. Players from either side will, of course, go on to senior level in the years ahead, but for the Cork and Tipperary panels as a whole, these respective groups will never again share the same dressing-room.

It was a fact which struck Cork U20 football captain Peter O’Driscoll on the bus up to Portlaoise for their All-Ireland final clash with Dublin and one which he made sure to emphasise before they took to the field on that memorable afternoon at O’Moore Park.