The big interview with Barry Coffey: 'Kerry will always look over their shoulder at a Cork team'

Thirty years on from The Double and Barry Coffey hasn't forgotten the little things that sowed the seed for something bigger

THE SWEETEST DAY: Barry Coffey, seen here at his home in Ovens, Co. Cork, admits Cork’s 1990 All-Ireland success was all the sweeter for coming against a Meath side with whom the Rebels had built up a ferocious rivalry. ‘Would it have knocked off a few percentage points in terms of enjoyment if it hadn’t been Meath? No question about that,’ he says. Picture: Jim Coughlan

There was a moment in the maelstrom. That’s what remains.

In the 1990 All-Ireland football final Cork were five minutes from immortality when Barry Coffey and Michael Slocum had a quiet word.