Niall O'Leary: Being from Cork, what you want to achieve is to win an All-Ireland

Their squeezing out of Munster has put them four steps from ending the county’s 19-year All-Ireland famine.

ALL-IRELAND DREAM: Cork's Niall O'Leary has the Liam MacCarthy title in his sights. Pic Credit: Laszlo Geczo, Inpho.

Fair dues to Niall O’Leary. He could have stuck rigidly to the one-game-at-a-time rhetoric.

He didn’t, and neither was he afraid to articulate the end goal. The end goal is of course to return Liam MacCarthy Leeside.