Glen Rovers in from the cold at hot end of championship

Tomorrow at Páirc Uí Rinn (5pm), Glen Rovers face Newtownshandrum in the last eight of the Cork senior hurling championship — the city club’s first quarter-final appearance since 2016.

That Glen Rovers have not featured at this stage for three years is an odd statistic given the club contested three consecutive county finals from 2014-16. But such a run was always likely to catch up on an ageing side and one-point defeats to Midleton and Na Piarsaigh in recent years meant the Glen had made their exit before the championship entered its concluding stages.