Jimmy Barry-Murphy hailed St Finbarrs’ character and composure to battle back from behind to defeat Clonmel Commercials.<\/p>\n
The Tipperary champions led as late as the 58th minute, only for the Barrs to land the final four points to swing a 1-17 to 2-11 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked like we were gone. Away from home in these conditions, it’s hard to get scores back. It was heart-in-the-mouth stuff in the end, but we just got there,\u201d said Barrs selector Barry-Murphy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a fantastic game in the conditions. Both sides, full credit to them. Clonmel are an excellent team. They’ve had a tough year, obviously losing Philly Ryan recently. Terrible tragedy for their club, and you could see what it meant to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur lads were brilliant to finish the way we did. The key to the whole thing was our composure on the ball. We worked into great scoring situations and got the ball to key players. That’s a very good trait for any team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWilliam Buckley came alive. He’s a brilliant footballer for us and a brilliant hurler as well, but he got great scores and created great openings.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, Steven Sherlock\u2026 two-pointers have changed the game, and he’s just a very talented player who\u2019s able to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barry-Murphy and the Barrs management team were happy to see their team\u2019s enthusiasm to set aside their Cork title for a crack at the Munster Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey celebrated for a night or two and they came to us. We were thrilled, because we wanted to have a go off it. But it was the players who led this.<\/p>\n
\u201cIan Maguire and Steven Sherlock came to me leaving P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh and they both said that they wanted to go after the Munster Club Championship \u2013 if we’re good enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are obviously very good teams left in it, but that’s their attitude, and that’s what we wanted to see.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s fantastic. I never thought I’d see this again, so for me it’s a great bonus. I love being involved in it. It’s a great competition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up is a semi-final against Clare champions \u00c9ire \u00d3g Ennis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gather it’s a home game in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, so that’s a bonus for us as well,\u201d said Barry-Murphy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time of year, you saw the conditions today, it’s going to be very, very difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll my life I’ve played Munster club hurling and football championships, and that’s what you’ve got to do at this time of year. You’re going to meet these conditions, and it takes a lot of character.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commercials boss Tommy Morrissey felt his side played the better football for long stretches, but lost out to the Barrs\u2019 efficiency in front of the posts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of the performance, I wouldn’t be critical of anything. I thought we were brilliant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’d say St Finbarr’s might admit, even to their level, we were probably a little bit ahead of them on the day. But they were just more clinical up the top end of the field. When you have players like Sherlock, he can do that to you.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very clinical. Any opportunity he got from a dead ball, he punished us. Some of them we gifted to him, which will hurt, but performance-wise, from ourselves, delighted with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re an unbelievable group of players and, as a club, we’re blessed to have them. We know that. In particular, how they’ve handled themselves in the last four weeks, it’s been completely admirable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Barry-Murphy hailed St Finbarrs’ character and composure to battle back from behind to defeat Clonmel Commercials. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2110,5658,23713,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-142485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-sport","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-irish-examiner-instagram-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}