Kearys Renault presents Cork GAA with six new kit vans

Paul O’Halloran presents the Cork Senior Hurling and Football teams with new Renault Trafic Vans kit vans for the season ahead.

Kearys Renault presents Cork GAA with six new kit vans

 

Paul O’Halloran, COO, Kearys Motor Group, presented Cork GAA Senior hurling and football teams with their new Renault Trafic Sport Kit Vans for the 2023 season this afternoon.

 

This is the third year of Kearys Renault’s partnership with Cork GAA. This partnership reflects Kearys’ culture, values, and team spirit.

 

“We are delighted to donate these new branded Renault Trafic Sport vans to Cork GAA for this season and are very proud of our young players and new managers here in Cork,” said Paul O’Halloran.

 

“We hope the teams enjoy use of the vans and wish all teams and clubs in Cork GAA every good wish for a successful season,” he added.

 

All six teams in the Cork GAA are amazing groups of athletes and fantastic ambassadors for Cork, and together with Kearys strive to drive GAA in Cork!

 

On behalf of the Cork GAA Sinéad O’Keeffe, Commercial Director noted, “We are delighted to partner with Kearys Renault again this year and thank them for their support, with a busy season ahead for all 6 hurling and football teams we look forward to taking to the roads of Cork in the Renault Trafic Sport Vans”.

 

The six new branded Renault Trafic Sport vans serve as official kit vans for the Cork Senior, Under 20 and Minor Hurling and Football teams. They will be recognised around the roads of Cork by Kearys and the GAA logos and its distinctive graphic of a hurler or footballer.

 

Also present were Martin Curtin, Head of Business, Kearys Renault, Kevin Hourihan, Corporate Sales Manager, Julian Boylan, Head Of Sales, Kearys Renault Pro+ Van Centre, Sinéad O’Keeffe, Commercial Director Cork GAA. Pat Ryan, Senior Hurling Manager and John Cleary, Senior Football Manager and Seán O’Donoghue (Captain) and Tim O’Mahony Cork Senior Hurlers and Cork Senior footballers Colm O’Callaghan and Stephen Sherlock. Also included Pat Keane, Hurling equipment, Mick Curtain and Denis Mc Sweeney Football equipment.

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Cork defeat Limerick in the Allianz Football League Division 2 Round 4

Allianz Football League Division 2

Cork 6-18 Limerick 0-12

Had you been told a Cork team would rack up 6-18 in this SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh double-header, the smart money may well have been on the hurlers.

Instead, for the second time this season, Cork ripped one of their Munster rivals asunder with a goal-scoring blast.

This 24-point triple-scores demolition will mean more than the five goals they drilled into an understrength Kerry team just back from their holidays in a McGrath Cup opener.

Not only does this first home League win lay down a marker for a potential Munster semi-final rematch down the line, it means Cork can look up the table as winless Limerick are left needing a Houdini act to avoid relegation to Division 3.

Cork midfielders Ian Maguire and Colm O’Callaghan had goals inside the first 15 minutes while Seán Powter and Brian Hurley soon joined them as all four registered 1-1.

Chris Óg Jones (0-6) and Steven Sherlock (0-5) added 11 points but it was substitute Conor Corbett who stole the show in the second half, never missing an opportunity to impress as he scorched 2-1 onto the scoreboard.

A whopping 6-16 of Cork’s total came from open play.

The first major came in the ninth minute. Hurley played an enticing ball to Jones who skinned his marker and laid it across for Maguire to finish. 1-1 to no score.

Powter blazed just over the bar when in on goal four minutes later but Cork fans among the 7,347 double-header crowd only had to wait two more minutes for the next goal.

Ruairí Deane, an early substitute for Brian O’Driscoll, fed O’Callaghan to complete a devastating counter-attack.

Limerick replied to both early goals with back-to-back points to leave it 2-3 to 0-4. But Cork’s midfield dominance saw them land the next three, with Jones and O’Callaghan claiming high catches as Maguire, Sherlock, and Jones hit the target.

Daniel O’Mahony had a rare own point when palming the ball over to avert any danger of a goal.

At the other end, Eoghan McSweeney was fingertips away from gathering Hurley’s sumptuous pass for a third goal but it came in the 33rd minute, Mattie Taylor and Tommy Walsh bursting forward and providing for Powter to tidy home.

Cork finished with another 1-2 in stoppage time, McSweeney returning the favour with a pass for Hurley to blast home. Hurley and Taylor points stretched it out to 4-9 to 0-6 at half-time.

Ray Dempsey made three changes and although Killian Ryan teed up Brian Donovan to crack the crossbar within a minute, it couldn’t change the course of the game.

Two minutes later, Corbett latched onto a long ball and buried his first senior inter-county goal past Donal O’Sullivan.

When Sherlock added a free, it made it 5-11 to 0-6, the first 5-10 having all come from open play.

Cillian Fahy came forward to kick Limerick’s next three points but Jones had four in response, taking his tally to 0-6, while he forced a save from O’Sullivan. Deane tapped in the rebound only for it to be chalked off for a square ball.

Cork never let up as Sherlock hit the crossbar in the closing stages and O’Sullivan tipped over a dipping Corbett effort.

Corbett provided the final flourish, turning his man inside-out before drilling under O’Sullivan to complete a trouncing that will leave scars in the Limerick camp for some time to come.

Scorers for Cork: Conor Corbett 2-1; Chris Óg Jones 0-6; Steven Sherlock 0-5 (2f); Colm O’Callaghan, Ian Maguire, Seán Powter, Brian Hurley 1-1 each; Mattie Taylor, Eoghan McSweeney 0-1 each.

Scorers for Limerick: Cillian Fahy 0-3; Tony McCarthy, Iain Corbett, Colm McSweeney, James Naughton (f), Cian Sheehan, Brian Donovan, Hugh Bourke, Michael Donovan, Daniel O’Mahony (own point) 0-1 each.

CORK: Mícheál Aodh Martin; Maurice Shanley, Daniel O’Mahony, Tommy Walsh; Luke Fahy, Rory Maguire, Mattie Taylor; Colm O’Callaghan, Ian Maguire; Eoghan McSweeney, Seán Powter, Brian O’Driscoll; Brian Hurley, Chris Óg Jones, Steven Sherlock.

Subs: Ruairí Deane for O’Driscoll (5 inj), Conor Corbett for Hurley (h-t), Killian O’Hanlon for I Maguire (42), Cian Kiely for Fahy (48), Seán Meehan for Walsh (52), Kevin O’Donovan for Shanley (60), Mark Cronin for Powter (62).

LIMERICK: Donal O’Sullivan; David Connolly, Seán O’Dea, Brian Fanning; Tony McCarthy, Iain Corbett, Cillian Fahy; Colm McSweeney, Cathal Downes; Paul Maher, James Naughton, Cian Sheehan; Brian Donovan, Hugh Bourke, Gordon Brown. Subs: Jim Liston for McCarthy (26-28, blood), Michael Donovan for Connolly (h-t), Peter Nash for Maher (h-t), Killian Ryan for Brown (h-t), Adrian Enright for Donovan (50), Liston for Bourke (60).

Referee: Brendan Griffin (Kerry).