Nemo Rangers 'died with their boots on' says manager Paul O'Donovan

"If you had said to me before the game that we’d keep them to 11 points, I’d have jumped at that. But they kept us to nine and that’s the final story, unfortunately.”

GRACEFUL IN DEFEAT: Nemo Rangers manager Paul O'Donovan. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

It says everything about Nemo Rangers manager Paul O’Donovan that he greeted defeat with the same grace that he afforded to victory in the aftermath of his side’s gutting defeat to Castlehaven in the final of the Cork PSFC.

The game will not go down as one of the classic finals, but while it may have lacked in quality, there was no shortage of graft, and there’s always a pride to that.