Brian Hayes: 'It is hard enough to play one, but playing dual is really hard after a long year'

The Barrs face Nemo Rangers in the Cork SFC final bidding to avoid a fifth consecutive county final defeat to their rivals. 

St Finbarr's Brian Hayes with Shane Murphy, Ballincollig, after their McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Premier SFC semi-final match at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Picture Dan Linehan

Every club team in Cork to stand opposite the Barrs knows it is Ian Maguire and Steven Sherlock they must nullify and quench. Awareness of that twin threat, though, rarely gives way to successful extinguishing of said threat. Sunday’s Cork football semi-final was the latest such example.

Sherlock’s 35th minute two-point kick from some 50 metres out represented the Barrs’ opening score from play and the first time they led Ballincollig.