Midleton out to ease Harty pain with Dean Ryan final victory

STILL smarting from their failure to reach the knock-out stages of the Harty Cup, Midleton CBS will look for some compensation when they play DLS Waterford in Dungarvan today in the Dean Ryan Cup final.

This Munster colleges JHC A title has eluded the East Cork school since 1989, but their results this season suggest they are well equipped to bridge that 18-year gap.

Thurles CBS were hotly fancied from early on to take the title, but Midleton dumped them out by three points in a marvellous quarter-final tie. It was then on to a semi-final meeting with Árd Scoil Rís, the team that ended Midleton’s Harty hopes.