{"id":179777,"date":"2025-12-07T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:04:08","slug":"winning-free-was-very-very-harsh-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179777\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning free was very, very harsh against us"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Finbarr’s selector Jimmy Barry-Murphy has called the free that broke his side’s hearts as \u2018harsh\u2019 after a cracking AIB Munster Club SFC final at FBD Semple Stadium on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Barrs looked to have done enough to claim provincial glory for a sixth time as they led by a point against Dingle.<\/p>\n

Ian Magiure though was adjudged to have overcarried the ball and then substitute Dylan Quinn was penalised for seemingly trying to stop the taking of a quick free, which looked soft.<\/p>\n

The referee brought the free up 50 yards and Conor Geaney nailed the two-pointer as Dingle won on a scoreline of 1-18 to 0-20.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d rather not comment, it looked very, very harsh to me,\u201d the Cork GAA legend said post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIan [Maguire] didn\u2019t hand the ball back, the ball was on the ground and we were penalised 50 yards. I have to watch it back again. I\u2019ve plenty of experience of referees playing on in injury time when it\u2019s not there. But look, I think there\u2019s no point in me harping on about it now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got breaks this year and we didn\u2019t get them today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s did play very well for large parts in what was an excellent display for the majority. It just shows though how quickly a game can change under the new rules.<\/p>\n

\" Dingle’s Tom O’Sullivan with Conor Geaney who celebrates after scoring from a two-point free in added time against St Finbarr’s. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately after the game, it\u2019s hard to assess but I thought today we played some brilliant football. I thought overall it was probably our best display of the year in many ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe football we played was fantastic but I think that we didn\u2019t manage the game as well as we could have when we were three or four or five points up there with ten minutes to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe seemed to lose our way a small bit and we didn\u2019t control the game as well as we should have and had opportunities to stretch the lead out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you don\u2019t do that then the other team gets a chance and one or two decisions go against you then in the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut look, today is Dingle\u2019s day. We\u2019ll take it on the chin. We got a break in the county final, the last kick of the ball. So some days it goes your way but it\u2019s a hard one to take but I\u2019m pretty proud of the lads for their massive effort all year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steven Sherlock ended up with an incredible tally of 0-16 including six two-pointers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSteven was fantastic today. You have to give credit to Dingle though. They stuck at it, hung in there and got crucial scores.<\/p>\n

\" St Finbarr’s on the ground after their loss to Dingle. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first half we got the benefit of the two-pointers from Steven. So from that point of view, they are a huge factor in the game nowadays and they came back to bite us today, certainly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a great year for the club. The boys have been fantastic for us. The camogie team have an All-Ireland final next Sunday in Croke Park. That will be a huge occasion for our club.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom our side, Brian Roche did an incredible job of managing this team and coaching this team. The effort he put in was beyond belief and I couldn\u2019t pay enough credit to him for that and tribute to what he has done for this club over the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Finbarr’s selector Jimmy Barry-Murphy has called the free that broke his side’s hearts as \u2018harsh\u2019 after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-179777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179777","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=179777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}