‘The ultimate comeback, they’re a great bunch of lads’

The game was still in the balance when Darragh Fitzgibbon was helped off in injury-time but the Cork midfielder had done his bit.

Influential throughout this Fitzgibbon Cup final, it was the Charleville man’s second point just minutes earlier that had finally handed UCC the lead for the first time since Paddy O’Loughlin had opened the scoring for them in the first of the evening’s exchanges.