Battling Douglas survive as Bantry blow late chances

ON a weekend when the Cork hurlers were beating Tipperary in the Munster hurling final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, there were some interesting Evening Echo Cork senior football championship clashes around the county.

The pick of them was at Dunmanway where Bantry and Douglas played out a cracking 0-12 to 1-9 draw.

With time ticking quickly away in a tense, free-flowing clash, Bantry, caught by the force of a second-half Douglas storm, produced one more effort that, on another day, would surely have paid a more handsome dividend. After dominating the first-half with some slick football - Philip Clifford scoring four superb points - to lead 0-8 to 0-4 at the break, Bantry were well tamed by a rejuvenated Douglas in the second-half and trailing by a point deep into a splendid contest thanks to Eoin Cadogan’s 35th minute goal.