It would be fair to say that Nemo Rangers goalkeeper Micheal Aodh Martin didn’t enjoy the second half of Sunday’s Cork SFC final.

Nemo won the match against Duhallow but had an eleven-point advantage pared down to four, with Martin making two crucial second-half saves to keep his team on course.

“It must have been one of the worst second-half displays I’ve been involved with,” he told The Irish Examiner. “I was going absolutely nuts in goal with the amount of times we were passing between the 45 and 65-metre lines. In the first half, we’d have gone through a gap and created a score, but for some reason, it was pedestrian, we were static.

“Fellas stopped going for scores. We stopped doing what we are good at, going at teams. Once we stop doing that, we invite teams on. And sure enough, if they catch you in a tackle, they are going to turn you over. That is what happened. There is no reason it should come down to five minutes of panic at the end. Definitely have to learn from it.”

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