It could happen again but not in the short term. Or maybe it could. Alright, stop the flip-flopping.
What we’re on about is whether we’ll see both Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy winter in the same county any time soon. Dual counties with the numbers to achieve that are few.
There’s Galway, there’s Dublin and down south we have Cork. Of the trio, the Tribes look best equipped as of now to do the double, something they missed out on in 2001 when their hurlers fell at the final hurdle. Some consolation followed when the Pádraic Joyce-inspired footballers delivered Sam.
Eleven years before that and Cork famously did the ‘double’. As underdogs, hurling manager Fr Michael O’Brien oversaw a thrilling victory…