Masters ready to prove point as Nemo eye Ballina battle

JAMES MASTERS has more than one reason for relishing Nemo Rangers’ All-Ireland club semi-final with Ballina Stephenites (Ennis, Sunday, 2pm).

There’s the opportunity to put the three-month Cork dispute into the rearview mirror and concentrate at last on football. There is the hope of returning the famed club to Croke Park and then there is the matter of exorcising the demons from his last visit to GAA HQ — and a crushing defeat to the Kingdom.

“It was very difficult,” he says of the All-Ireland SFC final loss.