McCarthy hails his players’ courage as Cork just ‘got out of jail’

UNDERSTANDABLY, Waterford manager Justin McCarthy was hugely disappointed at his side’s failure to dethrone the All-Ireland champions in yesterday’s enthralling semi-final.

Referring to his players in the dressing room, McCarthy said: “there are a lot of broken hearts in there now, particularly after we came so close to winning it. The least we deserved was a second bite of the cherry.

“On a day when fancy hurling went out the window, it was always going to be a very tight game with so much at stake. There was very little open play, principally due to the weather and the man-to-man marking that went on.