Barr’s turn on power to see off Newmarket

Though they didn’t have it all their own way in the opening half, St Finbarr’s turned in an eye-catching second-half exhibition of point-taking to comfortably see off the challenge of Newmarket at Mallow on Saturday night.

The city side were awesome at times in the closing 30 minutes and outscored last year’s Premier IFC graduates by 10 points to two – not bad considering they were missing towering midfielder Eoin Keane with a hamstring injury and ace-attacker Jason Sexton.

But judging on this showing, they’ll have a job to do to work their way back into the side with seven men getting on the scoreboard, and all but two of their tally coming from play.