TJ Ryan: One Cork and two old City foes set to serve up a cracker

The two best teams are definitely in the final. I’d say you could have a classic in store in a few weeks.

CITY SLICKERS: Tadhg Deasy of Blackrock under pressure from James O'Carroll of Erin's Own. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

As I settled into my seat in the press box in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, I noticed a sign behind one of the goals promoting the ‘One Cork’ ethos, which amalgamates all of the existing organisations within Cork with the aim of improving their hurling and football teams across the county.

I fully understood the purpose of the initiative but I saw it as the ideal chance to hop the ball high and hard at Mark Landers sitting alongside me. “Is that a reminder for all of us,” I said to the bould Markeen “that every time we come in here, we have to say, ‘There’s only one Cork!’”