AIL final a humble club game’s chance to shine in Aviva tussle

Five years, eleven finals, ten trophies.

You can’t question Cork Constitution’s consistency, or their strike-rate in major finals, this past half-decade but Brian Hickey’s side approaches tomorrow’s Ulster Bank League Division 1A decider against Clontarf with a very obvious pang of hunger about them.

Five consecutive Bateman Cups and a quintet of successive Munster Senior Cups have been hoarded in Temple Hill now since 2013 but the closest this bunch of players have come to adding an All-Ireland title to that lot was 12 months ago when ‘Tarf pipped them with three points to spare.