Relieved JBM happy to get another shot

Jimmy Barry-Murphy leans back in his chair and smiles. He has been here before too many times not to know what is expected.

After 70 madcap minutes have flown by a room full of people who watched more or less dispassionately from the Upper Hogan Stand prepare to ask him to put it all in some sort of context.

Him. The Cork manager. A man whose brain must only have been whirring at a marginally less breakneck speed than his heart was pumping. We may as well have been asking him to explain a Jackson Pollock or Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia.