As plaudits for St Brendan’s mount, so does the pressure

No surprise to find St Brendan’s manager Gary McGrath playing down their favourite tag for today’s Corn Ui Mhuiri (Munster PP Colleges SFC) final in Tralee. 

That’s simply what managers do ahead of afternoons like this. How they got to the final is no indication of how they will do in the final, he reasons. The scorelines, though, don’t lie.

The Sem’s path to the final is listed elsewhere on this page, but such is its comprehensiveness that it deserves a second run through. The students from Killarney hammered IS Killorglin by 19 points in the opening game of their title defence. They had seven to spare over De La Salle Macroom – the closest any team has got - and they rounded off the group phase with a 22-point annihilation of Bandon’s Hamilton HS. Ominous.