As Ballymac know too well, semi-finals are for winning

Blake doesn’t care for the win rate of those that came before them. This journey has been for themselves and those no longer present. That’s for whom they want to keep the calendar and minds busy.

SEMI-FINALS ARE FOR WINNING:   Ballymacelligott's manager Ian Blake after defeating Buttevant in the AIB Munster club JFC final at Mallow. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Ian Blake had trouble finding the football field the first night he traveled to meet the Ballymacelligott players.

Blake is a Ballybunion native, Beale his football family. He’d never worked with any club but his own when venturing uncertainly down the road in search of the Ballymac bunker.