Deep into injury time in extra time at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, the Kingdom looked to have done enough to progress to the Munster SFC final as they led by 0-13 to 0-12, but Cork sought to engineer one last chance. After Seán Meehan linked with Damien Gore, he laid off to Luke Connolly, who sent in an equaliser attempt from the left, but it lacked the direction needed.
However, the ball fell to Keane – who plays Australian rules for Collingwood – and he slotted home to spark wild celebrations. It was shades of 1983 and Tadhg Murphy’s late winning goal to end eight years of Kingdom reign in Munster, and it means that Cork will face Tipperary in the Munster final in a fortnight.
Having scored the final two points in normal time to send the game to extra time, Cork’s race looked run as points from captain David Clifford and Killian Spillane (two) ensuring they stayed on top in the additional 20 minutes, while another sub, Tommy Walsh, made his presence felt by winning two kickouts. In such a tight game, though, there was always the possibility of a late twist and so it proved.
Kerry enjoyed the better start, with Clifford putting them ahead in the fourth minute from Seán O’Shea’s pass after Cork sloppily gave possession away from a sideline ball.
However, chances to extend the lead were wasted as O’Shea miscued a free and then sent a 45 wide. While Cork were sitting back, they were doing enough to contain Kerry and they levelled when Mark Collins found Brian Hurley, who claimed a mark and slotted over.
Kerry almost replied with a goal as O’Shea’s pass allowed Brian Ó Beaglaioch to run at the Cork defence and though his shot was saved by Micheál Aodh Martin, Ronan Buckley was on hand to put the loose ball over the bar.
When Cork did have possession, often they were forced backwards as they sought to hold the ball first and foremost. On the occasions that they could break the line, they showed signs of danger, as when Killian O’Hanlon found John O’Rourke and he in turn set up Mark Collins for a leveller on 19 minutes.
Again, Kerry responded well as Paul Murphy – impressive on breaks from kickouts – set up Clifford for his second but Cork tied at 0-3 each through Seán Powter after another good move.
The visitors had the lead for the fourth time through Dara Moynihan, set up by Peter Crowley, in the 24th minute, and there was a two-point lead for the first time when Clifford sent over the free that resulted for a foul on Tony Brosnan.
Cork didn’t panic though and began to get a foothold in the middle as they pressurised the Kerry kickout. That led to them finishing the half with three unanswered points as Collins (free) and Killian O’Hanlon (45) had the game level before captain Ian Maguire combined with wing-back Kevin O’Donovan, who ensured that they led for the first time in the game.
While Tony Brosnan had Kerry level in the first minute of the second half, O’Hanlon landed a free to make it 0-7 to 0-6 for the Rebels as the rain began to bucket down.
They struggled to engineer chances to further the lead in the wake of that, but Kerry couldn’t draw level. Clifford had a shot which came back off the post and Mattie Taylor did well to stop Brosnan getting to the loose ball, while Clifford shot wide from a very scoreable free in the 50th minute.
Two minutes later, Kerry lost Ronan Buckley to a black card after a heavy-duty foul on Ian Maguire, but Cork were unable to take full advantage of their numerical superiority and Kerry sub Killian Spillane levelled with a good fisted point before Mark Collins put Cork back in front with a free.
Back up to the full complement, Kerry improved as the conditions did and, having been held scoreless up to then, Seán O’Shea landed a free to make it 0-8 each before linking with Jack Sherwood to put Kerry back in front. When Spillane got his second, Kerry were two in front and victory was in sight but Cork sub Luke Connolly ensured there was just a point in it as the game moved into injury time.
With Kerry down to 14 again after a black card for David Moran, Cork had the ball but there was a reluctance for anybody to take a shot. They remained patient though and when Powter was fouled, Collins sent over his fourth point to send the game to extra time.
It looked like Kerry had done enough, but Keane had other ideas.
Scorers for Cork: Mark Collins 0-4 (3fs), Mark Keane 1-0, Luke Connolly 0-3 (2fs), Killian O’Hanlon 0-2 (1f, 145), Seán Powter, Kevin O’Donovan, Brian Hurley (m) 0-1 each.
Scorers for Kerry: David Clifford (1f), Killian Spillane 0-4 each, Seán O’Shea 0-2 (1f), Tony Brosnan, Ronan Buckley, Dara Moynihan 0-1 each.
CORK: Micheál Aodh Martin; Kevin O’Donovan, Maurice Shanley, Kevin Flahive; Seán Meehan, Seán Powter, Mattie Taylor; Ian Maguire, Paul Walsh; John O’Rourke, Killian O’Hanlon, Ruairí Deane; Mark Collins, Colm O’Callahan, Brian Hurley.
Subs: Mark Keane for O’Callaghan (44), Luke Connolly for O’Rourke (45), Michael Hurley for Walsh (54), Paul Kerrigan for Brian Hurley (62), Seán White for O’Donovan (69), Paul Ring for Flahive (start of extra time), Tadhg Corkery for Powter (75), Kevin O’Driscoll for Maguire (77, injured), Damien Gore for O’Hanlon (half-time in extra time).
KERRY: Shane Ryan; Jason Foley, Tadhg Morley, Tom O’Sullivan; Paul Murphy, Peter Crowley, Gavin White; David Moran, Diarmuid O’Connor; Brian Ó Beaglaioch, Seán O’Shea, Ronan Buckley; Tony Brosnan, David Clifford, Dara Moynihan.
Subs: Stephen O’Brien for Moynihan (47), Killian Spillane for Brosnan (50), Jack Barry for Ó Beaglaioch (55), Jack Sherwood for Buckley (63), Gavin Crowley for White (start of extra time), Ó Beaglaioch for O’Sullivan (half-time in extra time), Tommy Walsh for Foley (85), Paudie Clifford for O’Connor (89).
Cork will play Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship Semi-Final on Sunday November 8th at 4pm in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Derek O’Mahoney (Tipperary) will referee the game.
Cork team to play
The Cork Senior Football Team to play Kerry on Sunday has been on announced Thursday night.
Micheál Martin (Nemo Rangers)
Sean Powter (Douglas)
Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
Kevin Flahive (Douglas)
Kevin O’ Donovan (Nemo Rangers)
Sean Meehan (Kiskeam)
Mattie Taylor (Mallow)
Ian MaGuire (St Finbarrs) –Captain
Killian O’ Hanlon (Kilshannig)
John O’ Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
Colm O’ Callaghan (Eire Óg)
Ruairi Deane (Bantry Blues)
Mark Collins (Castlehaven)
Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)
Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)
Anthony Casey (Kiskeam)
Sam Ryan (St Finbarrs)
Paul Ring (Aghabullogue)
Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)
Tadhg Corkery (Cill na Martra)
Paul Walsh (Kanturk)
Kevin O’ Driscoll (Tadhg MacCarthaigh)
Sean White (Clonakilty)
Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)
Mark Keane (Mitchelstown)
Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)
Management Details
Ronan McCarthy (Douglas) is Cork Senior football manager for 2020, this is his third year as Cork manager.
His selectors are Sean Hayes (Nemo Rangers) and Gary O’Halloran (Ballinora), Cian O’Neill is coach of the team.
Match Coverage
Under government guidelines, this game will be played behind closed doors.
The game will be broadcasted live on RTE. There will have live radio coverage on C103fm and with updates on Cork’s 96FM, Red FM and Radio na Gaeltachta.
Cork GAA will have updates on our website, Twitter page and Instagram page.
The game will also be broadcast on GAAGO outside of Ireland
Championship Draw
(you might need to turn your mobile device to landscape view to view the table below)
On Saturday, Cork hurlers beat Dublin in Round 1 of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Winning 1-25 to 0-22.
When is the draw?
The draw takes place on Monday, November 9 and will be live on Morning Ireland on RTE Radio One from 8:35am.
How does the draw work?
The four teams are in an open draw with no restrictions on which team they can meet in the next round.
When will the games take place?
The matches will be played next weekend, November 14/15.
What happens then?
The Leinster final and Munster final runners-up will go into the hat with the two winners of next weekend’s Round 2 qualifier games for the All-Ireland quarter-finals.
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By John Harrington at Semple Stadium – report via www.gaa.ie
A quicker-wristed and quicker-witted Cork proved much too good for Dublin in this All-Ireland SHC Round 1 Qualifier at Semple Stadium.
The Rebels’ hurling was a delight to watch at times as they moved the ball through the lines with surgical precision and finished with scalpel-sharpness too.
Kieran Kingston’s team mirrored Dublin’s sweeper system from the start, and simply worked it better.
It helps when you have a hurler as talented as Mark Coleman playing as the free man in your defence, and he quickly grew into one of the dominant personalities of the match.
Thanks to his positional sense he was able to sniff out danger in front of his full-back line with impressive consistency and got himself on a lot of ball.
He’s one of the sweetest strikers in the game too, and when he won possession he invariably found a team-mate with a well-weighted pass.
To by-pass a sweeper you need to be able to work the sliotar as far as the middle third from where you can angle in ball that will favour your inside forwards, but Dublin struggled to do this.
Cork’s forwards have been criticised in the past for a lack of work-rate off the ball, but they tackled hard and tracked diligently throughout this match which meant Dublin’s defenders were usually under pressure when picking their passes.
It must be said too that the movement in front of them didn’t offer enough options, in contrast to the fluid switching and running of Cork’s midfielders and half-forwards.
The Cork wing-forwards, Seamus Harnedy and Robert O’Flynn, proved especially elusive for an at times bewildered Dublin defence.
Their ability to pop up in pockets of space was consistently impressive, and when they got the ball they did the business with it, scoring five points from play each.
Shane Kingston was another Cork forward who combined great pace with clever movement and his four-point haul was another big contribution to this Cork victory.
Also at the heart of much of what they did well was the midfield combination of Bill Cooper and Luke Meade who worked tirelessly to carry the ball hard when that needed to be done, and picked out accurate passes to their forwards when that was the percentage play.
It was Meade who opened the scoring in the very first minute and the match continued at a good clip from there.
Dublin didn’t manage to stick the pace for very long. As soon as Declan Dalton goaled after nine minutes the Rebels were in the driving seat.
Jack O’Connor was the creator as he burned Paddy Smyth for pace before passing to Dalton, who hit a sweet ground stroke to the net after his initial shot was blocked.
Dalton is a physical player who brings something different to his Cork attack and he impressed in the first half before fading somewhat in the second.
Mark Coleman of Cork in action against Cian Boland of Dublin during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier Round 1 match between Dublin and Cork at Semple Stadium in Thurles, Tipperary.
Donal Burke was doing his best to keep Dublin in the conversation, and a nice point from the corner-forward meant Mattie Kenny’s team were within three points, 1-6 to 0-6, at the first water-break.
That was still the margin of difference with 31 minutes on the clock, but Cork fired off a machine burst of scores before the break with Kingston, Downey, and Horgan all pointing to push their team 1-13 to 0-10 ahead.
Dublin needed a strong start to the second half and nearly got it in the very first minute when Danny Sutcliffe raced through, but Anthony Nash pulled off a great save low to his right from the wing-forward’s batted shot.
Dublin kept plugging away, but Cork were finding their scores easier to get, with O’Flynn in particular running riot on the right wing. Two points in quick succession from the Erins Own man pushed the gap out to seven points.
Dublin were very reliant on Donal Burke’s free-taking to stay in touch, and tried to inject some life into their forwards by pushing Chris Crummey into full-forward and bringing on Davy Keogh, Sean Moran, and Liam Rushe.
Crummey did make a bigger impression on the edge of the square and finished with three points, but a more direct approach largely didn’t pay off for Dublin because the Cork defence defended the high ball aggressively.
Points in quick succession from Jack O’Connor and Harnedy increased Cork’s advantage to 10 points by the 62nd minute, and they were never going to be caught from there.
Dublin, to their credit, kept battling to the end and scored five of the last six points, but by then Cork had visibly lifted their foot of the accelerator as they coasted to victory.
Morale will be high in the Cork camp after this victory, and if they can continue working as hard without the ball as they do with it, they could be a force to be reckoned with yet in this Championship.
Scorers for Cork: Patrick Horgan 0-8 (5f, 1’65), Seamus Harnedy 0-5, Robert O’Flynn 0-5, Declan Dalton 1-1, Shane Kingston 0-4, Jack O’Connor 0-1, Luke Meade 0-1
Scorers for Dublin: Donal Burke 0-11 (9f), Danny Sutcliffe 0-3, Chris Crummey 0-3, Cian Boland 0-2, Conor Burke 0-1, Ronan Hayes 0-1, Davy Keogh 0-1
CORK: Anthony Nash; Colm Spillane, Seán O’Donoghue, Mark Coleman; Damien Cahalane, Robert Downey, Tim O’Mahony; Bill Cooper, Luke Meade; Robert O’Flynn, Patrick Horgan, Seamus Harnedy; Jack O’Connor, Shane Kingston, Declan Dalton. Subs: Stephen McDonnell for Sean O’Donoghue (30), Conor Lehane for Declan Dalton (53), Aidan Walsh for Seamus Harnedy (67), Niall O’Leary for Robert Downey (68), Shane Barrett for Jack O’Connor (74)
DUBLIN: Alan Nolan; Cian O’Callaghan, James Madden, Paddy Smyth; Conor Burke, Daire Gray, Jake Malone; Daire Gray, Riain McBride; Danny Sutcliffe, Chris Crummey, Cian Boland; Eamon Dillon, Ronan Hayes, Donal Burke. Subs: Davy Keogh for Eamon Dillon (47), Sean Moran for Jake Malone (51), Liam Rushe for Ronan Hayes (51), Mark Schutte for Cian Boland (53), Conal Keaney for Rian McBride (67)
Ref: John Keenan (Wicklow)
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Cork stun Kerry
Munster SFC Semi-Final
CORK 1-12 KERRY 0-13 AET
By Denis Hurley at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh report via www.gaa.ie
Mark Keane was the hero for Cork as his late goal gave the Rebels a first Championship victory over Kerry since 2012 on Sunday.
Deep into injury time in extra time at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, the Kingdom looked to have done enough to progress to the Munster SFC final as they led by 0-13 to 0-12, but Cork sought to engineer one last chance. After Seán Meehan linked with Damien Gore, he laid off to Luke Connolly, who sent in an equaliser attempt from the left, but it lacked the direction needed.
However, the ball fell to Keane – who plays Australian rules for Collingwood – and he slotted home to spark wild celebrations. It was shades of 1983 and Tadhg Murphy’s late winning goal to end eight years of Kingdom reign in Munster, and it means that Cork will face Tipperary in the Munster final in a fortnight.
Having scored the final two points in normal time to send the game to extra time, Cork’s race looked run as points from captain David Clifford and Killian Spillane (two) ensuring they stayed on top in the additional 20 minutes, while another sub, Tommy Walsh, made his presence felt by winning two kickouts. In such a tight game, though, there was always the possibility of a late twist and so it proved.
Kerry enjoyed the better start, with Clifford putting them ahead in the fourth minute from Seán O’Shea’s pass after Cork sloppily gave possession away from a sideline ball.
However, chances to extend the lead were wasted as O’Shea miscued a free and then sent a 45 wide. While Cork were sitting back, they were doing enough to contain Kerry and they levelled when Mark Collins found Brian Hurley, who claimed a mark and slotted over.
Kerry almost replied with a goal as O’Shea’s pass allowed Brian Ó Beaglaioch to run at the Cork defence and though his shot was saved by Micheál Aodh Martin, Ronan Buckley was on hand to put the loose ball over the bar.
When Cork did have possession, often they were forced backwards as they sought to hold the ball first and foremost. On the occasions that they could break the line, they showed signs of danger, as when Killian O’Hanlon found John O’Rourke and he in turn set up Mark Collins for a leveller on 19 minutes.
Again, Kerry responded well as Paul Murphy – impressive on breaks from kickouts – set up Clifford for his second but Cork tied at 0-3 each through Seán Powter after another good move.
The visitors had the lead for the fourth time through Dara Moynihan, set up by Peter Crowley, in the 24th minute, and there was a two-point lead for the first time when Clifford sent over the free that resulted for a foul on Tony Brosnan.
Cork didn’t panic though and began to get a foothold in the middle as they pressurised the Kerry kickout. That led to them finishing the half with three unanswered points as Collins (free) and Killian O’Hanlon (45) had the game level before captain Ian Maguire combined with wing-back Kevin O’Donovan, who ensured that they led for the first time in the game.
While Tony Brosnan had Kerry level in the first minute of the second half, O’Hanlon landed a free to make it 0-7 to 0-6 for the Rebels as the rain began to bucket down.
They struggled to engineer chances to further the lead in the wake of that, but Kerry couldn’t draw level. Clifford had a shot which came back off the post and Mattie Taylor did well to stop Brosnan getting to the loose ball, while Clifford shot wide from a very scoreable free in the 50th minute.
Two minutes later, Kerry lost Ronan Buckley to a black card after a heavy-duty foul on Ian Maguire, but Cork were unable to take full advantage of their numerical superiority and Kerry sub Killian Spillane levelled with a good fisted point before Mark Collins put Cork back in front with a free.
Back up to the full complement, Kerry improved as the conditions did and, having been held scoreless up to then, Seán O’Shea landed a free to make it 0-8 each before linking with Jack Sherwood to put Kerry back in front. When Spillane got his second, Kerry were two in front and victory was in sight but Cork sub Luke Connolly ensured there was just a point in it as the game moved into injury time.
With Kerry down to 14 again after a black card for David Moran, Cork had the ball but there was a reluctance for anybody to take a shot. They remained patient though and when Powter was fouled, Collins sent over his fourth point to send the game to extra time.
It looked like Kerry had done enough, but Keane had other ideas.
Scorers for Cork: Mark Collins 0-4 (3fs), Mark Keane 1-0, Luke Connolly 0-3 (2fs), Killian O’Hanlon 0-2 (1f, 145), Seán Powter, Kevin O’Donovan, Brian Hurley (m) 0-1 each.
Scorers for Kerry: David Clifford (1f), Killian Spillane 0-4 each, Seán O’Shea 0-2 (1f), Tony Brosnan, Ronan Buckley, Dara Moynihan 0-1 each.
CORK: Micheál Aodh Martin; Kevin O’Donovan, Maurice Shanley, Kevin Flahive; Seán Meehan, Seán Powter, Mattie Taylor; Ian Maguire, Paul Walsh; John O’Rourke, Killian O’Hanlon, Ruairí Deane; Mark Collins, Colm O’Callahan, Brian Hurley.
Subs: Mark Keane for O’Callaghan (44), Luke Connolly for O’Rourke (45), Michael Hurley for Walsh (54), Paul Kerrigan for Brian Hurley (62), Seán White for O’Donovan (69), Paul Ring for Flahive (start of extra time), Tadhg Corkery for Powter (75), Kevin O’Driscoll for Maguire (77, injured), Damien Gore for O’Hanlon (half-time in extra time).
KERRY: Shane Ryan; Jason Foley, Tadhg Morley, Tom O’Sullivan; Paul Murphy, Peter Crowley, Gavin White; David Moran, Diarmuid O’Connor; Brian Ó Beaglaioch, Seán O’Shea, Ronan Buckley; Tony Brosnan, David Clifford, Dara Moynihan.
Subs: Stephen O’Brien for Moynihan (47), Killian Spillane for Brosnan (50), Jack Barry for Ó Beaglaioch (55), Jack Sherwood for Buckley (63), Gavin Crowley for White (start of extra time), Ó Beaglaioch for O’Sullivan (half-time in extra time), Tommy Walsh for Foley (85), Paudie Clifford for O’Connor (89).
Referee: Derek O’Mahoney (Tipperary).
Munster SFC- Cork VS Kerry – Semi-Final
Munster SFC 2020
Cork will play Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship Semi-Final on Sunday November 8th at 4pm in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Derek O’Mahoney (Tipperary) will referee the game.
Cork team to play
The Cork Senior Football Team to play Kerry on Sunday has been on announced Thursday night.
Management Details
Ronan McCarthy (Douglas) is Cork Senior football manager for 2020, this is his third year as Cork manager.
His selectors are Sean Hayes (Nemo Rangers) and Gary O’Halloran (Ballinora), Cian O’Neill is coach of the team.
Match Coverage
Under government guidelines, this game will be played behind closed doors.
The game will be broadcasted live on RTE. There will have live radio coverage on C103fm and with updates on Cork’s 96FM, Red FM and Radio na Gaeltachta.
Cork GAA will have updates on our website, Twitter page and Instagram page.
The game will also be broadcast on GAAGO outside of Ireland
Championship Draw
(you might need to turn your mobile device to landscape view to view the table below)
Draw for Round 2 on Monday
On Saturday, Cork hurlers beat Dublin in Round 1 of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Winning 1-25 to 0-22.
When is the draw?
The draw takes place on Monday, November 9 and will be live on Morning Ireland on RTE Radio One from 8:35am.
How does the draw work?
The four teams are in an open draw with no restrictions on which team they can meet in the next round.
When will the games take place?
The matches will be played next weekend, November 14/15.
What happens then?
The Leinster final and Munster final runners-up will go into the hat with the two winners of next weekend’s Round 2 qualifier games for the All-Ireland quarter-finals.
Cork hurlers over come Dublin in SHC Round 1
All-Ireland SHC Round 1 Qualifier
CORK 1-25 DUBLIN 0-22
By John Harrington at Semple Stadium – report via www.gaa.ie
A quicker-wristed and quicker-witted Cork proved much too good for Dublin in this All-Ireland SHC Round 1 Qualifier at Semple Stadium.
The Rebels’ hurling was a delight to watch at times as they moved the ball through the lines with surgical precision and finished with scalpel-sharpness too.
Kieran Kingston’s team mirrored Dublin’s sweeper system from the start, and simply worked it better.
It helps when you have a hurler as talented as Mark Coleman playing as the free man in your defence, and he quickly grew into one of the dominant personalities of the match.
Thanks to his positional sense he was able to sniff out danger in front of his full-back line with impressive consistency and got himself on a lot of ball.
He’s one of the sweetest strikers in the game too, and when he won possession he invariably found a team-mate with a well-weighted pass.
To by-pass a sweeper you need to be able to work the sliotar as far as the middle third from where you can angle in ball that will favour your inside forwards, but Dublin struggled to do this.
Cork’s forwards have been criticised in the past for a lack of work-rate off the ball, but they tackled hard and tracked diligently throughout this match which meant Dublin’s defenders were usually under pressure when picking their passes.
It must be said too that the movement in front of them didn’t offer enough options, in contrast to the fluid switching and running of Cork’s midfielders and half-forwards.
The Cork wing-forwards, Seamus Harnedy and Robert O’Flynn, proved especially elusive for an at times bewildered Dublin defence.
Their ability to pop up in pockets of space was consistently impressive, and when they got the ball they did the business with it, scoring five points from play each.
Shane Kingston was another Cork forward who combined great pace with clever movement and his four-point haul was another big contribution to this Cork victory.
Also at the heart of much of what they did well was the midfield combination of Bill Cooper and Luke Meade who worked tirelessly to carry the ball hard when that needed to be done, and picked out accurate passes to their forwards when that was the percentage play.
It was Meade who opened the scoring in the very first minute and the match continued at a good clip from there.
Dublin didn’t manage to stick the pace for very long. As soon as Declan Dalton goaled after nine minutes the Rebels were in the driving seat.
Jack O’Connor was the creator as he burned Paddy Smyth for pace before passing to Dalton, who hit a sweet ground stroke to the net after his initial shot was blocked.
Dalton is a physical player who brings something different to his Cork attack and he impressed in the first half before fading somewhat in the second.
Donal Burke was doing his best to keep Dublin in the conversation, and a nice point from the corner-forward meant Mattie Kenny’s team were within three points, 1-6 to 0-6, at the first water-break.
That was still the margin of difference with 31 minutes on the clock, but Cork fired off a machine burst of scores before the break with Kingston, Downey, and Horgan all pointing to push their team 1-13 to 0-10 ahead.
Dublin needed a strong start to the second half and nearly got it in the very first minute when Danny Sutcliffe raced through, but Anthony Nash pulled off a great save low to his right from the wing-forward’s batted shot.
Dublin kept plugging away, but Cork were finding their scores easier to get, with O’Flynn in particular running riot on the right wing. Two points in quick succession from the Erins Own man pushed the gap out to seven points.
Dublin were very reliant on Donal Burke’s free-taking to stay in touch, and tried to inject some life into their forwards by pushing Chris Crummey into full-forward and bringing on Davy Keogh, Sean Moran, and Liam Rushe.
Crummey did make a bigger impression on the edge of the square and finished with three points, but a more direct approach largely didn’t pay off for Dublin because the Cork defence defended the high ball aggressively.
Points in quick succession from Jack O’Connor and Harnedy increased Cork’s advantage to 10 points by the 62nd minute, and they were never going to be caught from there.
Dublin, to their credit, kept battling to the end and scored five of the last six points, but by then Cork had visibly lifted their foot of the accelerator as they coasted to victory.
Morale will be high in the Cork camp after this victory, and if they can continue working as hard without the ball as they do with it, they could be a force to be reckoned with yet in this Championship.
Scorers for Cork: Patrick Horgan 0-8 (5f, 1’65), Seamus Harnedy 0-5, Robert O’Flynn 0-5, Declan Dalton 1-1, Shane Kingston 0-4, Jack O’Connor 0-1, Luke Meade 0-1
Scorers for Dublin: Donal Burke 0-11 (9f), Danny Sutcliffe 0-3, Chris Crummey 0-3, Cian Boland 0-2, Conor Burke 0-1, Ronan Hayes 0-1, Davy Keogh 0-1
CORK: Anthony Nash; Colm Spillane, Seán O’Donoghue, Mark Coleman; Damien Cahalane, Robert Downey, Tim O’Mahony; Bill Cooper, Luke Meade; Robert O’Flynn, Patrick Horgan, Seamus Harnedy; Jack O’Connor, Shane Kingston, Declan Dalton. Subs: Stephen McDonnell for Sean O’Donoghue (30), Conor Lehane for Declan Dalton (53), Aidan Walsh for Seamus Harnedy (67), Niall O’Leary for Robert Downey (68), Shane Barrett for Jack O’Connor (74)
DUBLIN: Alan Nolan; Cian O’Callaghan, James Madden, Paddy Smyth; Conor Burke, Daire Gray, Jake Malone; Daire Gray, Riain McBride; Danny Sutcliffe, Chris Crummey, Cian Boland; Eamon Dillon, Ronan Hayes, Donal Burke. Subs: Davy Keogh for Eamon Dillon (47), Sean Moran for Jake Malone (51), Liam Rushe for Ronan Hayes (51), Mark Schutte for Cian Boland (53), Conal Keaney for Rian McBride (67)
Ref: John Keenan (Wicklow)
Cork Senior Hurling team announced.
The Cork Senior Hurling team to play Dublin has been announced.