Donncha O’Brien masters elements and rival Jerry Gibbons

Donncha O’Brien was brilliant at Durrus where he beat Jerry Gibbons by almost a bowl in torrential rain in the West Cork Junior A championship.

Gibbons just shaded the opening shots from Ross’s corner towards the bridge. O’Brien got a brilliant second past the novice line to take a 70m lead. He followed with a smashing third shot into the bend that ran to Ward’s cross and gave him a 50m lead. He consolidated his lead with his next to the middle of the wire.

Gibbons was tight left with his next but it ran on by the bog. O’Brien beat that well with another great shot towards ‘Annie Florrie’s’, clipping though both bends. Gibbons missed that to concede a bowl of odds. O’Brien held his bowl of odds to the cattle grids and onto Daly’s. Gibbons got a brilliant bowl past Blair’s Cove, but O’Brien beat it.