Saturday 31st October

Harry Hayden (0:16)

Good evening, how are you getting on in your very own clang to The Big Red Bench on this Halloween Saturday? It's me, Harry Hayden, keeping you company for the next hour in what's been another hectic day of sport, and it's not even over yet, of course, we had a few technical issues there, so apologies for that, but we're now ready to go. Of course, got plenty coming up for you in the next hour, loads of good intues, but of course, the big story today, breaking earlier that Ger Manley is stepping down as Cork senior Komogi manager, an absolute legend of Cork Komogi, led them, of course, to three All-Ireland Finals in a row, winning two of them most recently this summer, and of course, back in 2024 as well, Munster Championship and a league title in there as well. So yeah, he'll be very much missed, but an absolute legend, and it's going to be interesting to see who comes in and replaces him, only time will tell. Of course, some other news, Cork Hurle is Brian Hayes and Náil O'Leary in the All-Stars team as well. That was on last night, so well done to them, the only Cork representatives in the All-Stars team. We'll be looking at some of the other sports today, of course, eight Premier League games today, another bad defeat for Manchester United. The pressure is ramping up on Michael Carrack after that 2-0 defeat to Chelsea, big win for Chelsea as well. What a win as well for Brighton, it was as they beat Man City there, just flying this season. And of course, we'll be keeping an eye on some of the sport that's going on. Spurs currently playing Chris LaPollis, half an hour gone in that one, just one. Spurs just scored, actually, Archie Gray broke the deadlock there with Chris LaPollis down to 10 men. And of course, we'll be keeping an eye on the Monster game. They're currently a 5-0 down at Tholman Park. But we'll start things off in Gaelic Games, another massive weekend of finals at Super Valley Parque, the Intermediate A final is happening right now. Bandon are leading Alaha by six points at the moment. There's still about 10 minutes to go on that one, so we'll keep an eye on that one. And in the Premier Intermediate Final, Kishkeen face Eve Lear, that's on at 7 p.m. But last night Kilmurry, they secured the Intermediate A football championship as they beat Buttevin very convincingly by two goals and 18 points to 10 points. And our very own Ger McCarthy was at Super Valley Parque at Kuiv and he caught up with man of the match, Liam Wall.

Ger McCarthy (2:16)

Congratulations, it's a fantastic night for Kilmurry. But for you personally, is that about as good a game as you played in this jersey?

Liam Wall (2:22)

Look, I don't really look at personal performance. It was an outstanding team performance. If you saw our defense there, look, they closed down the threat of the Buttevin main attackers. We just knew that if you give them space, they will score. And I thought our defense there, especially Alexander Asling and Max O'Leary, they had brilliant games. They shut down the space for the Buttevin forwards. And look, we got over the line yet.

Ger McCarthy (2:42)

What do you remember about your goal?

Liam Wall (2:44)

I don't remember too much.

Look, it's great to get an early goal. It kind of settles the nerves, gets the team into the game. And look, I just ran off the shoulder off the Indian, put it under the keeper. And look, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But it was great to get us into the game.

Ger McCarthy (3:00)

I asked your captain about the psychological advantage of playing them earlier in the season, knowing they knew you as well. Did it really matter coming into the series?

Liam Wall (3:08)

Look, we've had some serious battles with Port of Ant two years ago. We beat them in the semifinal of the county, Premier Junior. And in the group stage this year, we beat them by a point. But look, we were lucky to come away with the win.

And we got two two-pointers towards the end of the game. But look, we just knew we kind of focused on ourselves.

We don't care about the opposition. If we knew if we came with the right intensity and the grit, then we'd get over the line today.

Ger McCarthy (3:34)

This team has been together quite a long time, up to the ranks, and you've come good, now into Premier, Intermediate. What does it mean for the club to go up that grade?