Cork-Waterford rivalry, Dublin's chaos years: The biggest crowd-pleasers in Gaelic games, part two
As the full-house signs go up all over Munster, Kieran Shannon in a two-part series delved the history books and crunched the numbers to see who previously has had claim to be the biggest draw and hottest ticket in the game.
Previously in this series: Micko’s Predecessors (Kerry-Kildare 1905-1932); Christy Ring (1940-1963); the Down footballers (1959-1968); the Cork – and Kerry – footballers (1974-2010); Babs’ Tipperary hurlers (1987-1994); Loughnane’s Clare (1995-2000); the Armagh footballers (1999-2008).
