'A strong hurling scene in the city is a central plank to a strong hurling scene in Cork'

Glen Rovers face Imokilly in tomorrow’s Cork senior hurling final, the kind of bald covering statement that covers a century-plus of history. The Glen, with two players on the GAA’s hurling Team of the Millennium. The Glen, eight counties in a row and the boys of sweet Blackpool. The only club in Ireland with a bridge and a tunnel named after past members?

That’s the Glen. Yet when they returned to the top table with a county title win in 2015 it was the club’s first senior championship since 1989. How did a drought like that happen? Chairman Derek Goggin explains by pointing to the after-effects of a couple of county senior victories.