O’Connell focused on pitch matters

Most of the headlines regarding last Sunday’s St Finbarr’s-Castlehaven SFC quarter-final centred around events in the aftermath of Jason Sexton’s late equaliser for the Barrs, when a brawl broke out.

Simmering tensions came to the boil then, but ahead of today’s replay in Bandon, the city side’s manager Bill O’Connell is hoping events on the pitch take priority.

“The minute the whistle went I brought the lads down to the town-end goal for a warm-down. We spoke for a few minutes and I told them it was a great result to pull it back from two down, focusing on the match rather than anything else.