Patrick Horgan: Another sickening loss for Cork but the fans shouldn't be shipping any blame

Cork were blown away by a rampant Galway while Clare missed their chance against Limerick in two gripping All-Ireland semi-finals but having a passionate support should never be painted as a negative

UNREAL SUPPORT: A huge Cork crowd travelled to follow Cork against Galway at Croke Park so how is that a negative?  Picture: Larry Cummins

It was the weekend where the hurling championship came alive, Galway producing an unreal performance to take out Cork and Limerick digging deep, again, to hold off Clare.

But there’s only one place to start down here and that’s Cork’s defeat. Or the manner of it because there’s no getting away from the comparisons to last year’s All-Ireland final. A disaster.