Cork vs Galway: A dormant rivalry - will we see it erupt this weekend?

Padraic Mannion of Galway with Seamus Harnedy of Cork during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group A match between Cork and Galway at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

As a rivalry, it’s dormant. Seven years without a puff of smoke, 14 since it last erupted.

Cork and Galway may have contested six All-Ireland finals, at least two of them classics, but their last five championship meetings hasn’t borne champions.
Before losing the Division 1 final in Cork’s case and the Leinster in Galway’s, there would have been strong arguments that history wouldn’t repeat itself. But now? Joe Canning, Galway’s constant in their run of four straight SHC wins over Cork, is absent but is it going to be more of the same?