Seven wonders: Remembering Cork’s previous All-Ireland three-in-a-row attempts

Sunday is the eighth occasion in the past 52 years where a Cork team has chased three-in-a-row. All seven previous attempts were sunk. Here’s who sunk them and how.

EIGHTH TIME LUCKY?: Cork manager Ger Manley on the sideline. Pic: Eddie O'Hare.

No sheet was passed around the Cork dressing-room this past fortnight to make sure all answers to the inevitable three-in-a-row question carried a degree of sameness. Or, deflection, for that matter.

Manager Ger Manley insisted to this writer earlier in the week that three-in-a-row hasn’t once been mentioned in camp throughout a 2025 journey that has an hour left to run.