Impressive Barr’s tame Vincent’s to escape relegation

DESPITE the absence of dual-star Ronan Curran, St Finbarr’s scorched to an emphatic seven-points victory over city rivals St Vincent’s in the Evening Echo Cork County SFC relegation play-off battle at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

The loss of Curran, who has opted out of the football scene to concentrate his energies with the Blues’ hurlers, was scarcely felt as the Barr’s dominated from start to finish and rarely gave their opponents a look-in.

With full-back Michael Shields in outstanding form and Jim O’Donoghue and Aidan O’Shea lording it at midfield, the Barr’s took the game by the scruff of the neck from the word go. And with the Leahy brothers, Roy and Greg sparkling up front, they rarely looked in danger of slipping up.