Brilliant Barr’s put up ring of blue steel

With 26 county senior championships wins between them, you can count on near city neighbours Nemo Rangers and St Finbarr’s producing pretty fierce rivalry.

True, the Trabeg side have had the Indian sign on the Togher outfit for a quite a while — not since 1989 have the Barr’s beaten them in the championship — but at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, in this fourth round clash, Nemo ran into a wall of blue steel and were beaten all over the park.

No wonder Barr’s selector Bill O’Connell was ecstatic: “They’re the team to beat, aren’t they, the kingpin really of Cork football.