When it's Cork v Tipp, best to expect the unexpected

Like all great rivalries, the fortunes of the protagonists have fluctuated over the past 136 years. But rarely predictably. 

Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork, in action against Michael Webster, Tipperary in the 2007 All-Ireland Hurling Championship Qualifier at Semple Stadium. Picture: Brendan Moran, Sportsfile

When it comes to sport, it feels like we’ve reached our saturation point. It is impossible to keep up with everything. Would you even want to? How does a sport manage to keep itself relevant when there is so much going on? For the most part, it seems to be clips, clicks and giggles. Scroll through whatever social media that you’ve chosen to annihilate what’s left of your brain cells and you’re overwhelmed by nonsense. Apologies, content.

The streets won’t forget this, that was the best game ever of that, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a great venue, but I can’t park on the halfway line. Hyperbole has been the chosen weapon in the race to find the lowest common denominator. However, we saw something very different in Thurles and in Ennis last weekend.