Even the saved appeared lost as, like zombies, they meandered around the streets and narrow lanes of Queenstown, as it was known then, many dressed in borrowed clothes.

Dervla Toal will play Catriona O’Farrell in the final of the Pat O’Brien Developments Queen of the Roads at Ballincurrig on Sunday, following an impressive win over Gretta Cormican and Rena Ahlrichs yesterday.