Templemore manager proud of gallant effort

Templemore manager Tommy Byrnes acknowledged that his side needed a greater lead than the 0-7 to 0-5 advantage they had at half-time, having played with the wind. He couldn’t fault the effort shown, though.

“We had a couple of wides and it took us a while to settle,” he said, “a two-point lead at half-time wasn’t enough but there was still only a puck of a ball in it at the end. The last 10 minutes was a huge effort from us, they could have laid down and gone five or six points down but they ran it as much as they could and they just came up short.”

“We put the ball in there three times near the end and it was cleared, a little bit of luck and it would have been a replay,” he said.