After many decades where GAA folk talked wistfully of the ‘Champions League format’, we can now see a future where Real Madrid and Barcelona begin their routes to glory via the Cork GAA format. This week, I saw it written, in these quarters, that there are “three appetising Cork football championship games” being shown this weekend. As Tracey Kennedy put it, “This plan seeks to reboot that sense of ‘Corkness’ in our players, our clubs and our supporters”. If you were having to look for Corkness, how could you know what you were looking for? We were known as the little All-Ireland for years and that old appeal seemed to have gone.”But it is back.

Source: Irish Examiner September 05, 2020 06:04 UTC