UCC outclass GMIT, but improvement needed

UCC were much too good for their GMIT hosts at Carnmore, Galway yesterday, but whether they are good enough to collect their 41st Fitzgibbon Cup title remains to be seen.

They always looked like winning this one, yet lacked a killer instinct. Agoal in the final quarter could have seen GMIT stage another late rally as they have done more than once this year.

But now they are through to another Fitzgibbon Cup weekend and the most prolific winners of the competition should have centre-back Kevin Moran — rested yesterday because of De La Salle’s All-Ireland Club semi-final clash with Clarinbridge on Saturday — back for the concluding stages in Waterford the weekend after next.