No strangers to final day importance, Cork embark on most crucial journey in quite some time

Cork have never gone relaxed into the final weekend of league fare. They’ve always been stood at some cliff edge or another.

SURGING: Cork will look to the likes of Ian Maguire to navigate their way through Sunday's Tyrone test in Omagh. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Ian Maguire has finished his turkey burger and is leaning against the kitchen sink upstairs in Páirc Uí Rinn. 

A member of the catering team is wiping and cleaning around us, indifferent to the football conversation playing out in her workspace.