It’s funny how being in a bubble can make one forget that not everybody is as immersed in a subject.
On Tuesday, the Cork senior hurling squad for the Allianz Hurling League was announced. The identity of most of the 36-man panel could have been guessed with a strong degree of accuracy and there were enough rumours flying around that the marginal calls were already fairly well-known too.
But, of course, Cork support is a broad church. For instance, the fact that Luke Meade and Conor Lehane, among others, would not be part of the set-up in 2026 was noted by The Echo back in November but their absence from Tuesday’s list still brought surprise in some quarters.
It’s worth noting at this point that, at a press conference at…