Glen make ’Town pay for early red cards

But when Patrick Horgan and Bishopstown defender Colm O’Driscoll and midfielder Mark Driscoll were red carded inside 10 minutes the game was thrown in the air.
Horgan and O’Driscoll’s sendings off was followed by a serious flare-up which left a sour taste in the mouth until the two sets of players refocused on the task on hand, but the Glen’s numerical advantage enabled them to play some splendid hurling. In real terms, as Bishopstown’s manager Padraig O’Donoghue conceded afterwards, “it was an impossible task really in a big field with 13 players.