Flurry of scores cost us

Clyda Rovers coach Ned English accepted that his side’s All-Ireland final bid went up in smoke in the five minutes before half-time.

The Munster champions, playing into a gale force wind, trailed 1-4 to 0-3 approaching the interval, their defensive set-up holding firm in the face of unrelenting Kiltane pressure. Thereafter, however, arrived the game’s key period, Kiltane sniping 1-3 without reply to carve out a lead they never relinquished.

“It was a game where, after 25 minutes, you’d say we were in a reasonable position, having played against a terrible breeze and being only a couple of points down. In the last five minutes, of the first half the game was won and lost,” he noted.