Mark Coleman: Blocking out the noise now part of the Cork territory

For the younger players who are part of this live-on-their-phone generation, the noise can be challenging to eschew and escape.

BLOCKING IT OUT:  Mark Coleman blocks Jason Forde during their Hurling League Division 1A match. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Noise. As a Cork hurler, it is always there. Sometimes ringing, sometimes dim. Good, bad, or indifferent, the noise never goes away. As constant as the search for Liam MacCarthy.

It’s the Monday evening after Cork have qualified for a second successive League final. Mark Coleman is sitting at the head of the boardroom table upstairs in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.