St. Finbarr’s regroup after dire first-half to snuff out St Catherine’s challenge

AT half-time in this Evening Echo Cork Co SHC first round contest at splendid Fermoy on Saturday, the St. Finbarr’s selectors were seething. And with every justification.

Having seen their charges five points behind and outplayed by a lively and tuned in St. Catherine’s in the opening 30 minutes, drastic action was required.

And whatever wise old heads Jimmy Barry Murphy, Charlie McCarthy and company concocted in the dressing room at half-time, it worked the oracle - a much more positive Barr’s side powering past the Ballynoe men with clinical efficiency in the second-half.