Mark Foley: Charleville can now cope against the Barrs without Fitzgibbon bailouts

Charleville must face St Finbarr's in the Cork Premier SHC quarter-final without injured Darragh Fitzgibbon 

Charleville's Jack Doyle and Erin's Own's James O'Carroll tussle for the sliotar during the Co-Op Superstores Cork PSHC at Mallow . Picture; Eddie O'Hare

One of Mark Foley’s opening lines is to exhale, with a great puff of relief, that “we are finally after getting there”.

“There” refers to the knockout stages of the Cork hurling championship and Charleville’s success in crossing the rubicon from relegation-escaping specialists to quarter-finalists. “There” took quite the journey.