Geaney: Semi-final win gave us great belief

UCC captain Paul Geaney says the semi-final win over Maynooth with only 13 men provided the belief to claim the scalp of Sigerson Cup favourites UUJ in Saturday’s decider.

A gale-force wind had backed their first-half endeavours in Friday’s penultimate round clash, but the Cork University managed only a slender 1-6 to 0-6 interval advantage. The final would prove a carbon copy of the Maynooth tie with Billy Morgan’s outfit, having again enjoyed the elements, ahead 0-6 to 0-2 at the break, by no means an insurmountable target for UUJ.

On both occasions UCC were expected to be reeled in, both times they held firm. Belief, insisted Geaney, who missed last year’s decider through a broken L5 vertebrae, was paramount.