Sothern comfort for Pembroke

AFTER a season which promised so much for Cork Harlequins, the club finished up with nothing to show from a year’s strenuous endeavour.

The defeat of their senior men’s side in the All-Ireland Club Championship final by Pembroke Wanderers in Dublin yesterday capped off a frustrating and largely unfulfilled campaign.

Having beaten arch-rivals Cork Church of Ireland 2-0 on Saturday to reach this final, Harlequins came into the match filled with reasonable expectations of achieving their aim of qualifying for Europe once more, but they ran into a Pembroke side who simply had the measure of them on the day.