Consistent Rangers resume normal service

CONSISTENCY in a world gone mad. Nemo Rangers put Ballinacourty of Waterford to the sword yesterday in Killarney, picking up a 14th Munster SFC club title in the process.

The Cork city side played with the wind in the first half, though wind is hardly an adequate description for the scouring gale that howled down the pitch towards the dressing room end. A windmill in the middle of the field would have generated enough power to solve the energy crisis for most of western Europe, though it posed more problems than solutions for the two teams who had to deal with it.

Ballinacourty adapted well to the hurricane early on, and tried to work the ball upfield with punchy low kicking and patient handpasses, but Nemo took out a patent on that approach decades ago. Quick hands from James Masters and David Kearney got the first score, Masters scoring four minutes in. Just afterwards Paul Kerrigan scorched in along the end line and brought a good save from Stephen Enright, but Kearney, alert again, finished well for a crucial goal.