Grin and Bere it

It takes two hours to drive from Páirc Uí Rinn to Castletownbere.

The men from the fishing village in West Cork will tell you they know the road well enough to make it in an hour and three-quarters, but what’s 15 minutes in a journey that long?

Their footballers didn’t manage any short cuts. Last Sunday they overcame Éire Óg in the Cork intermediate football championship final, but that’s the final chapter. You have to start on page one to get the full effect.