{"id":146883,"date":"2025-10-26T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146883\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:55:15","slug":"a-proud-day-to-be-from-st-finbarrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146883\/","title":{"rendered":"A proud day to be from St Finbarr’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Barry-Murphy was nearly lost for words as he basked in glory as St Finbarr\u2019s are back on top on Leeside.<\/p>\n

The Togher side had to grind it out to overcome Nemo Rangers in the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC final at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The Barrs won on a scoreline of 1-14 to 1-13 thanks to Cillian Myers-Murray\u2019s late point.<\/p>\n

Barry-Murphy came on board before the 2024 season to be part of Brian Roche\u2019s new management ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great, proud of the lads, delighted for the backroom team,\u201d he said to The Echo post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve done all the work really. Brian Roche, Martin Desmond, Ian Keeler, Tom\u00e1s Manning, they’ve put in a huge amount of work, along with a lot of others who I can\u2019t name.<\/p>\n

\" The St Finbarr’s team celebrate after their win in the McCarthy Insurance Group SFC final at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

\u201cBut a proud day for the Bars and, you know, it could have gone either way out there today, there\u2019s no point in saying otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cNemo are a great club with great spirit, we knew it was going to take a massive effort to beat them, but we just about got home in the end.<\/p>\n

\n They had it over us so it’s our turn today. It’s a great county to win because we had to beat great teams to win this.”\n <\/p>\n

Not for the first time this year, St Finbarr\u2019s were in a spot of bother at half-time, but composure and squad depth proved crucial and that has probably been the difference in them getting over the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t happy at half-time, we weren\u2019t playing that well. I thought our second-half display was excellent, the players showed great courage and great belief to win the game.<\/p>\n

IMPACT<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were to lose by a point, I don\u2019t think the lads could have given us any more to be honest. I thought today, substitutes were key for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n You hope when you have subs, that they\u2019ll make an impact and they did that.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

“We also had big performances from big players, the likes of Brian Hayes, Ian Maguire and Steven Sherlock. They led from the front.”<\/p>\n

\" Alan O’Donovan, Nemo Rangers, getting in a tackle on St Finbarr’s Ian Maguire. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n

The pitch invasion once the final whistle blew showed how much this meant to everyone associated with St Finbarr\u2019s. Their four-year drought without Andy Scannell is over and now a first win over Nemo in the final at the fifth attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, you asked me about the Nemo record last week, it\u2019s a big factor, because they\u2019re a fabulous club with an incredible record in finals. That\u2019s why it\u2019s extra special for us today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a proud day, and I\u2019m proud of the lads. I can\u2019t believe it. I was just overcome completely with emotion when the game was over, great to have my grandchildren here today, it\u2019s just fantastic. I never thought I\u2019d see that day again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Barry-Murphy was nearly lost for words as he basked in glory as St Finbarr\u2019s are back on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10417,24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-146883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gaelic-football","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115442937297589267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}