Paudie O’Sullivan's point booked the replay, but postponed the stag

There weren’t too many in Cloyne clapping Paudie O’Sullivan on the back for his equalising point at the end of Imokilly’s county semi-final.

That game against Sars was played on Sunday, October 8, with the replay, should the two sides finish level, earmarked for the following weekend. That seemed unlikely, though, given Imokilly’s quarter-final had required a second day out. They’d surely never be involved in successive stalemates.

It was as the clock entered the red at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and the scoreboard showing them deadlocked when O’Sullivan began to get tetchy. His stag was organised for the following weekend and he didn’t fancy telling some two dozen lads that their weekend up in Galway was postponed.