Jerome Stack insists St Brigid's second half performance against Castlehaven won't be good enough to beat Glen in the All-Ireland Club SFC final.

Leading by 1-7 to 0-6 at half-time on a half-frozen pitch in Thurles, the Roscommon champions had to withstand a second half rally by their Cork counterparts before prevailing by 1-11 to 0-10 and reaching their first Andy Merrigan Cup decider since 2013.

"To be fair, we were quite happy at half-time," the St Brigid's manager told RTÉ.

"In the second half, we lost a bit of momentum as there were one or two times early in the second half when we could have got scores.

"And to be fair to Castlehaven they went right at it, pushed on everything and they got change from it. So that is something that we have to look at, forewarned maybe."

He added: "I’d be disappointed with our second half and there are things we need to work at, but we did the right thing at the end and got our scores.

"And we know that we have real improvement needed to be serious challengers the next day."

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