A little voice in my head kept saying: 'Tipp on a run are like a stampede of raging bulls'

Greek legend has it that Sisyphus is cursed to forever spend each day rolling a boulder to the top of a hill, only for it to immediately roll back down. He has to start that arduous step-by-step push up the hill again the next day. And so it goes for Cork hurlers.

In 2006, Kilkenny were famously waiting in the long grass. The prophet JBM guided us back to Croke Park in 2013. Not a great day at the office, but somehow we were ahead and time up, well almost up. Domhnall O’Donovan, the least likely man to score, gets an impossible point at the death.

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