{"id":196659,"date":"2025-11-23T22:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196659\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:13:17","slug":"brian-hayes-was-awesome-hed-be-on-any-inter-county-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196659\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hayes was awesome, he’d be on any inter-county panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Barry-Murphy had nothing but praise for Brian Hayes after he scored three goals in St Finbarr\u2019s impressive win over \u00c9ire \u00d3g of Ennis.<\/p>\n

The Togher outfit won on a scoreline of 3-20 to 0-14 in the AIB Munster Club SFC semi-final at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Hayes was without doubt the star man with the Cork senior hurler scoring 3-3, all from play.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian was awesome, he\u2019s a fabulous footballer as well as a hurler,\u201d Barry-Murphy said post-match.<\/p>\n

\"BrianBrian Hayes of St Finbarr’s with supporters after the win over \u00c9ire \u00d3g, Ennis. Picture: Michael P Ryan\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’d be on any inter-county panel. We’ll never see a dual player again in the inter-county scene. That’s just the way it is. I was speaking about that recently, I think it’s a pity. It won’t happen ever again.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian\u2019s a very, very talented lad. It goes without saying that the Cork footballers would have him on their panel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It did take some time for St Finbarr\u2019s to click against \u00c9ire \u00d3g of Ennis. Once they did, they were always likely winners. A 15-point win was just about right even though it could have been more.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe St Finbarr’s team ahead of the win over \u00c9ire \u00d3g, Ennis. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren’t sure what to expect today, they’ve been hurling as well, a lot of dual players, so it is tough going for them,\u201d the Cork GAA legend says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very, very happy to have played some good football. We spoke last weekend about the conditions in Clonmel, it was obviously a lot different here today. You could see the lads expressed themselves a bit more.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys kicked some brilliant scores and their movement was quite good. I think from our perspective, up five points at half-time, it was a very, very good performance in that first half.<\/p>\n

\n To come back out playing with the wind, our lads used the ball well and we moved the ball at pace.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some very athletic players and I thought that some of the goal chances we created were excellent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

GLORY<\/p>\n

St Finbarr\u2019s are back in the Munster final looking to win the competition for a sixth time. The last time they competed in the provincial championship, they claimed glory, back in the 2021\/22 campaign.<\/p>\n

\" John Wigginton-Barrett wins a free for St Finbarr\u2019s against \u00c9ire \u00d3g, Ennis. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

They will meet a strong Dingle side in the final with the Kerry outfit no doubt going in as favourites in a fortnight.<\/p>\n

\n We know we’re going to face a huge task with Dingle, but it’s great to be in the Munster final.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality in Cork is that you were facing Castlehaven, who have been a superb team for the last couple of years, and Nemo, and Clonakilty, all superb teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it’s very hard to get out of Cork and when you do, you’re facing the best in Kerry now: Dingle. That’s going to be a big task for us, we know that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Kilcoo a few years ago in Portlaoise, we were beaten in extra-time, that’s the standard you’re facing when you go into these competitions and the time of year makes it tougher as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the lads are loving it and they’re driving it on themselves.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Barry-Murphy had nothing but praise for Brian Hayes after he scored three goals in St Finbarr\u2019s impressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10417,9,10,24,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-196659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-gaelic-football","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-gaa","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115601317205823738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196659","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=196659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}