Hurley lights up Haven’s final path

Castlehaven 2-09 Carbery Rangers 0-09

Castlehaven’s Brian Hurley produced a Broadway performance under lights on Saturday at Páirc Uí Rinn, and yet instead of celebrating that, the instinctive reaction of many was: could Carbery Rangers have done more to shut down the Haven’s talisman?

They certainly could — by dropping a covering defender in front of the lethal full-forward, for starters — but all bar the Rosscarbery contingent in a Cork SFC semi-final crowd of 3,561 were glad they didn’t. Hurley was well bottled up in the quarter-final drawn game by St Finbarr’s’ Michael Shields, but he ran amok against his West Cork rivals as Castlehaven eased into Sunday’s football decider against Duhallow.