{"id":365261,"date":"2026-03-26T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:16:10","slug":"st-finbarrs-finish-well-as-they-sneak-past-nemo-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365261\/","title":{"rendered":"St Finbarr’s finish well as they sneak past Nemo Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nemo Rangers: 0-9 (0-1-7)\u00a0<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s: 0-10 (0-1-8)\u00a0<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s once more edged out rivals Nemo Rangers in the McCarthy Insurance Group Division 1 Football League at Trabeg on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

In a repeat of last year\u2019s McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC final, which the Barrs won by a point, Brian Roche\u2019s side won by the same margin here as they move on to five points after three outings.<\/p>\n

Nemo Rangers remain on two points after suffering a second loss on the trot. Not for the first time they will have regrets after playing their old rivals. The Trabeg-based team had enough chances late on to get at least something out of the game.<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s though rallied in what was another comeback victory following on from their last match against \u00c9ire \u00d3g. The reigning league winners kicked the last two points in this one to claim the win.<\/p>\n

Conditions were difficult for both sides with a tricky wind and occasional showers.<\/p>\n

\" Stephen Cronin of Nemo Rangers moves away from Ian O’Callaghan of St Finbarr’s. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

In front of a sizeable crowd, St Finbarr\u2019s hit their straps early with points from Cillian Myers-Murray and John Wigginton-Barrett.<\/p>\n

It was a slow burner though with turnovers on both sides and wayward shooting.<\/p>\n

Jack O\u2019Brien kicked Nemo Rangers\u2019 first score after 11 minutes before the teams traded points.<\/p>\n

A pair of Ross Corkery efforts put the home side into the lead for the first time and it was deserved.<\/p>\n

Robbie O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s charges were in control despite a slow start with Eoin Nation and Eoin Kelly effective around the middle.<\/p>\n

Enda Dennehy drew St Finbarr\u2019s level at 0-4 each after 21 minutes before a Ronan Dalton two-pointer gave Nemo Rangers a 0-6 to 0-4 half-time advantage.<\/p>\n

It was wiped out within three minutes of the new half. Conor Dennehy and Myers-Murray white flags levelled up proceedings.<\/p>\n

Corkery nudged Nemo Rangers ahead until two-point king Myers-Murray raised an orange flag for St Finbarr\u2019s as they led 0-8 to 0-7 after 41 minutes.<\/p>\n

\" Ross Corkery of Nemo Rangers and Trevor Howe of St Finbarr’s in action. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

It was a disjointed second 30 minutes with plenty of stoppages.<\/p>\n

Sub Dara O\u2019Sullivan drew Nemo Rangers level with six minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

The same player pointed but in keeping with the close nature of the battle, Myers-Murray converted a free with the teams level at 0-9 each going into added time.<\/p>\n

A draw was probably a fair result in truth, but the lively Bill O\u2019Connell stepped up and bisected the posts as the Barrs eke out another win against their southside rivals.<\/p>\n

Scorers for Nemo Rangers: R Corkery 0-3, R Dalton (1 2pt), D O\u2019Sullivan 0-2 each, S Cronin, J O\u2019Brien 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s: C Myers-Murray 0-6 (1 2pt, 0-1 f), J Wigginton-Barrett, C Dennehy, B O\u2019Connell, E Dennehy 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

NEMO RANGERS: F Dietze; C Moore, M Hill, N O\u2019Shea; E Nation, S Cronin, T O\u2019Brien; E Kelly, J O\u2019Brien; O Whyte, R Dalton, L Horgan; R Corkery, C Horgan, S Burke.<\/p>\n

Subs: D O\u2019Sullivan for S Burke (h-t), A O\u2019Donovan for O Whyte (41), B O\u2019Neill for J O\u2019Brien (43, inj).<\/p>\n

ST FINBARR\u2019S: C Haynes; D Quinn, J Burns, T Howe; B Hennessy, A O\u2019Connor, C Dennehy; I O\u2019Callaghan, C Crowley; B O\u2019Connell, E Dennehy, A Lyne; C O\u2019Sullivan, J Wigginton-Barrett, C Myers-Murray.<\/p>\n

Subs: C Doolan for C Crowley (41), S Kirby for I O\u2019Callaghan (49, inj), J Kennefick for C Dennehy (57, inj).<\/p>\n

Referee: James Regan (Lough Rovers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nemo Rangers: 0-9 (0-1-7)\u00a0 St Finbarr\u2019s: 0-10 (0-1-8)\u00a0 St Finbarr\u2019s once more edged out rivals Nemo Rangers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-365261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365261","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=365261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}