Barr’s eventually find work ethic to match blue collars

It remains sport’s enduring mystery: The No-Show.

When months of meticulous preparation vanish inexplicably down the plughole and all you want is a mulligan and another chance to put it right. The limp, lifeless display by St Finbarr’s, last year’s beaten finalists, in the first half of yesterday’s Cork SFC semi-final had all the recognisable ingredients of a team that forgot to bring their form on the team bus from Togher. Fortunately for them, it was arrested after 30 minutes.