If one county can cope with getting high on its own supply, it's Cork

The Rebels will attempt to bounce back from a deflating trip to Limerick last weekend. 

HEAD OF STEAM: Niall McCarthy, Cork, races away from Diarmuid Fitzgerald of Tipperary in their All-Ireland SHC qualifier at Fitzgerald Stadium in 2004. Picture credit: Brendan Moran / SPORTSFILE

Twenty-one years ago, Cork manager Donal O’Grady was driving by Páirc Uí Rinn when he saw something that made his heart soar.

Cork had been beaten by 14-man Waterford in one of the great Munster finals but their supporters would not be deterred. Queueing for tickets in their hundreds for the subsequent qualifier against Tipperary, he knew the Cork public still believed.