Managers agree it’s all relative in derby clash

TOMORROW Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosts the two Cork SHC semi-finals. The cliched description would be a “mouthwatering” double bill, but here the cliche is true. Michael Moynihan took soundings from all four clubs: Sarsfields v Erins Own and Cloyne v Newtownshandrum.

THERE are local derbies, and then there are local derbies. Sars and Erins Own could define the genre tomorrow, particularly as it’s a repeat of their first-round game, which Sars lost.

“This is a real derby in the sense that people are living right next door to each other,” says John Barry, the Sars manager.