The Nire are 60 Minutes from Third Munster Final appearance.

A week on from winning an eight County Senior Football Championship The Nire are back in action again on Sunday when they take on Cork champions Carberry Rangers at Clonakilty.

The Nire it is well documented were not at their best in some of their recent games but were still winning, but we might have seen last weekend that Benjie Whelan’s side might be about to peak at the right time as they easily accounted for a fancied Ballinacourty side at Fraher Field.

The Cork side playing on soil that they will be familiar with will go into the game in a confident mood. They beat Ballincollig in the Cork County Final recently on a 1-15 to 1-12 score line and in their last game they accounted for Limerick Champions Moonaleen at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on a 2-11 to 0-7 score line.

In the Cork Final they were best served by John Hayes, who was very impressive with kick kicking, hitting five points over the course of the hour.

They lead 0-8 to 0-7 at the break and continued to be the better of the two sides in the second half with Seamus Hayes, John O’Rourke and Chris O’Donovan kicking their goal all landing some vital scores.

They again impressed in their last game. They had a scare early on as the Limerick side had three early goal chances, none of which they took, and once John O’Rourke (3), John Hayes (2) and Seamus Hayes (1) gave them a 0-6 to 0-1 lead after twenty minutes, they looked as if they were going to advance.

These recent wins will have the Cork champions entering this game on a high, but The Nire will travel to West Cork also on a high.

They are set to be without Maurice O’Gorman in this game after he picked up a facial injury late in the first half last week and it remains to be seen if Martin Walsh will play any part after he retired early in the same game with a head injury.

The side in Yellow and Blue however while they would miss these players they will know that they have players in reserve that can come in and do a job.

Last Sunday Liam Lawlor and Conor Gleeson were outstanding in front of goal. There was a split decision in the press box as to which was to receive the man of the match award. It was Lawlor that was given the nod as he would have contributed to other scores more than Gleeson did over the hour.

They do not rely solely on these players for scores as in the likes of Brian Wall, Shane Walsh, Shane Ryan, Seamus Lawlor, Darren, Craig and Dylan Guiry etc. they have players capable of winning any game.

Just as the Cork side will go into the game on a high, so too will The Nire. They have reached two Munster Finals in the last decade loosing on both occasions to opposition from Kerry.

They know that they have a very strong team and also know that they are not far off the mark to become the first club from Waterford to win a Munster Club Championship in Football.

The Nire on current form are well placed to win here, but they might have to put in a performance like last weekends against Ballinacourty to do so.