Neptune bid to end 19-year title wait

Historically no other club has been better at racking up national league titles

Neptune’s Nils Sabata prepares to take a free shot during the win over Trade House Ballincollig at Neptune Stadium. This weekend Neptune are chasing their first Superleague crown since 2003. Picture: Howard Crowdy

As hard as it is to fathom that it’s a 24-year gap that the Cork hurlers are trying to bridge, it probably isn’t even the most surprising national league famine on Leeside.

Cork hurling has always had an ambiguous relationship with the sport’s secondary competition, not least because even in the county’s halcyon days spring success rarely transferred into September silverware; only once post-Ring — back in 1970 — have Cork pulled off the league and All-Ireland double, whereas six Cody-coached Kilkenny teams alone have.