Allianz Hurling League Division 1A
Cork 1-16 Limerick 1-16
By Stephen Barry at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh
On a wretched night for hurling, Darragh Fitzgibbon’s 80th-minute free secured a share of the spoils for Cork against Limerick in front of 23,402 fans at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Fitzgibbon narrowed the gap in additional time before subsequently landing the equaliser.
Seán Stack, having booked a second member of the Limerick management, allowed one more play and blew for the decisive free after Brian Roche collided with Colin Coughlan.
Cork, having given up an early five-point lead, completed their comeback from five down with Fitzgibbon’s 10th white flag.
The crowd on Leeside brought back memories of last year’s Munster Championship classic but this contest was played on different terms. The greasy surface, crossfield wind, and constant drizzle made it a battle of wills.
Cork began with eight of last year’s championship starters compared to Limerick’s seven.
With Declan Dalton suspended and Robert Downey and Seán O’Donoghue injured, Pat Ryan made four changes from their win over Wexford with Eoin Roche, Ciarán Joyce, Ethan Twomey, and Alan Connolly drafted in.
John Kiely handed Jason Gillane his debut in the number one jersey in the race to replace injured Nickie Quaid and he struck two eye-catching frees.
Kyle Hayes started at centre-back while a new-look attack featured impressive performances from Aidan O’Connor and Patrick O’Donovan.
The first half was a curious affair as Cork burst out of the traps with seven points inside 12 minutes, but only scored once more for the remainder of the half.
Luke Meade had been called up after Robert Downey’s withdrawal and he scored the opener before winning a free for Fitzgibbon to convert. Twomey made it a three-point head start.
O’Connor got Limerick on the board but Fitzgibbon popped over the next two frees.
After an O’Donovan free, Fitzgibbon picked off his first from play followed by Shane Kingston for a 0-7 to 0-2 lead.
Pádraig Power departed clutching his wrist as the introduction of Patrick Horgan drew a big cheer from the home support.
After Kingston’s point, Cork wouldn’t score again for another 17 minutes. Indeed, there was only one score in the subsequent 11-minute stretch but it was a big one.
Kyle Hayes hoovered up a loose clearance and located William O’Donoghue all alone in front of the Cork goal. His shot deceived Patrick Collins to find the net.
Limerick reeled off the next three points through an Adam English free, O’Donovan, and new captain Cian Lynch.
Cork were crowding bodies back to deny Limerick space, but their careless deliveries to outnumbered attackers left them devoid of a scoring threat in this spell.
A Tim O’Mahony free from inside his own half couldn’t break Treaty momentum and O’Donovan twice more punished sloppy Cork play to make it 1-7 to 0-8.
Reidy had to track back to make a goal-saving block on Kingston to keep it that way at half-time.
Seán Finn didn’t re-emerge after the break, William O’Donoghue didn’t return after a temporary substitution, and Conor Lehane lasted only three minutes before departing with his arm wrapped inside his jersey.
Limerick added four of the first five after the interval, including an English pair before Cork got back into this contest in the 43rd minute.
A neat passing move involving Meade and Brian Hayes began and ended with Shane Barrett as the Blarney man bounced the sliotar home. They trailed by two, 1-11 to 1-9, now.
But debutant keeper Gillane pointed two frees, including one from deep inside his own half, to lead by four with seven minutes of regulation time to play.
Brian Hayes was credited with deflecting over a long-range free and added another soon after before Fitzgibbon made it a one-score game in the second added minute.
English doubled the cushion, but there was enough time for Fitzgibbon to grab a draw.
Scorers for Cork: Darragh Fitzgibbon 0-10 (9fs), Shane Barrett 1-0, Brian Hayes 0-2, Tim O’Mahony (f), Ethan Twomey, Shane Kingston, Luke Meade 0-1 each.
Scorers for Limerick: Adam English (3fs), Patrick O’Donovan (1f) 0-4 each, William O’Donoghue 1-0, Jason Gillane (2fs), Cian Lynch, Aidan O’Connor 0-2 each, Diarmaid Byrnes (f) and Shane O’Brien 0-1 each.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Eoin Roche, Ger Millerick, Niall O’Leary; Tim O’Mahony, Ciarán Joyce, Cormac O’Brien; Luke Meade, Ethan Twomey; Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett, Shane Kingston; Brian Hayes, Pádraig Power, Alan Connolly.
Subs: Patrick Horgan for Power (17, inj), Mark Coleman for Kingston (49), Conor Lehane for Connolly (59), Brian Roche for Lehane (62, inj), Robbie Cotter for Barrett (67).
Limerick: Jason Gillane; Seán Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Murphy; Diarmaid Byrnes, Kyle Hayes, Colin Coughlan; Adam English, William O’Donoghue; Gearóid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Aidan O’Connor; Donnacha Ó Dálaigh, Shane O’Brien, Patrick O’Donovan.
Subs: David Reidy for Hegarty (15, temp), Fergal O’Connor for Finn (HT), Cian Scully for Byrnes (45), Séamus Flanagan for Ó Dálaigh (49), Micheál Houlihan for O’Donovan (50), Eddie Stokes for O’Donoghue (57, temp).
Referee: Seán Stack (Dublin).
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Pádraig Power to miss the rest of the season due to Cruciate Ligament Injury;
The Cork hurling team have been hit with another injury blow as attacker Pádraig Power has been ruled out of action for the remainder of the 2025 season.
Power, who scored 1-4 in the win over Wexford in the opening round of the Allianz Hurling League, was forced off in the first half of last Saturday’s draw with Limerick. However, in addition to a shoulder dislocation which was set to sideline him for six weeks, the Blarney man has since been diagnosed with a torn cruciate ligament.
Power had been included in Cork’s 37-man squad for the year, which was released on Tuesday, before the news of the more serious injury arrived.
“Unfortunately, Pádraig Power is going to be out for the year,” Ryan said.
“He did his cruciate as well as his shoulder, it was an accidental collision into his knee. It only emerged after we had the panel finalised, we were hoping that it might just have been cartilage.
“He did so well last year, when he was out for much of the year but battled his way back in and came on in the All-Ireland semi-final,” Ryan said.
“He was obviously hoping to kick on from that and we were hoping he would too. He was very good against Wexford and it’s just a shame but the main thing is that he makes a full recovery.
Cork GAA sends best wishes to Pádraig Power in his recovery and we are all looking forward to see him return to the Red & White of Cork & Blarney.
The Cork Senior Hurling Panel has been announced;
Down edge out Cork at Páirc Esler;
Down 1-19 (1- 4-11) Cork 2-15 (2-5-5)
By Steve Malone at Páirc Esler
Down gave their Division Two ambitions a huge shot in arm with a magnificent comeback win.
Down made a few changes to the team that was announced during the week with goalkeeper John O’Hare to make way for Ronan Burns to make his county debut between the sticks, while as against Roscommon, Gareth McKibben replaced Kilcoo’s Miceal Rooney and Burren’s Ryan Magill took the corner forward spot instead of Conor McCrickard.
It was all Cork for much of the opening half, with five first half two-pointers building up a seven point break at by half-time, but Down displayed courage and a bit of swagger in the second half and Pat Havern’s crucial two-pointer put the Mourne men ahead for the first time of the game on 64 minutes.
Brian O’Driscoll had the chance to take the two league points down the long road home, but his pressure two-pointer free drifted wide and with it Cork’s hopes of back-to-back wins.
It is a massive victory for the Mourne men, who take on Meath in Newry next and they’ll be aiming to build on this result and performance.
Chris Óg Jones bagged the opening goal on 12 minutes to give Cork the lead and while Down replied with points from Oisin Savage, Odhran Murdock and Pat Havern, the Rebels kept pulling away with five two-pointers, with three of them coming from play. O’Driscoll, Maguire and Sean McDonnell raised the orange flag as did Mark Cronin from frees.
Cork had cruised into the 1-11 to 0-4 lead, but Down finished the half with the last three scores, from keeper Burns and Savage and they missed a glorious chance for a goal, with James Guinness blazing wide from close range.
Down made short work getting back into the groove early in the second as James Guinness and Pat Havern launched two pointers and Guinness added on a single point.
However, Cork pulled away again with Sean McDonnell netting and they seemed to have weathered the Mourne storm, but Down refused to let up and Murdock pointed before Danny Magill lashed into the net to make it a one-point game.
Then on 64 minutes, Havern landed his two-pointer free to steer Down ahead for the first time of the game.
There were four frenzied additional minutes and Cork could have regained the lead at the death but O’Driscoll’s effort dropped wide, which was the last kick of the game, much to Down’s relief.
Scorers for Down: Pat Havern 0-8 (1 tp, 3tpf), Danny Magill 1-1, Odhran Murdock and James Guinness (1 tp) 0-3 each, Oisín Savage 0-2 (1f), Ceilum Doherty and Ronan Burns (45) 0-1 each.
Scorers for Cork: Mark Cronin 0-6 (2 2ptf), Seán McDonnell 1-2 (1 2pt), Chris Óg Jones 1-0, Brian O’Driscoll (tp) and Rory Maguire (tp) 0-2 each, Sean Walsh, Eoghan McSweeney, and Patrick Doyle (f) 0-1 each.
Down: Ronan Burns, Peter Fegan, Ryan McEvoy, Patrick McCarthy, Gareth McKibben, Pierce Laverty, Caolan Mooney, Daniel Guinness, Odhran Murdock, Ceilum Doherty, James Guinness, Danny Magill, Oisin Savage, Pat Havern, Ryan Magill.
Subs: Conor McCrickard for McKibben (45’), Aaron McClements for Oisin Savage (55’), Eugene Branigan for Mooney (55’), Miceal Rooney for J Guinness (59’).
Cork: Patrick Doyle, Maurice Shanley, Daniel O’Mahony, Neil Loughran, Brian O’Driscoll, Rory Maguire, Matty Taylor, Sean Walsh, Colm O’Callaghan, Paul Walsh, Sean Porter, Eoghan McSweeney, Mark Cronin, Chris Og Jones, Sean McDonnell.
Subs: Tommy Walsh for S Porter (29’), Cathail Maguire for E Sweeney (55’).
Referee: Barry Cassidy (Derry).
Cork & Limerick share the spoils at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh;
Cork 1-16 Limerick 1-16
By Stephen Barry at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh
On a wretched night for hurling, Darragh Fitzgibbon’s 80th-minute free secured a share of the spoils for Cork against Limerick in front of 23,402 fans at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Fitzgibbon narrowed the gap in additional time before subsequently landing the equaliser.
Seán Stack, having booked a second member of the Limerick management, allowed one more play and blew for the decisive free after Brian Roche collided with Colin Coughlan.
Cork, having given up an early five-point lead, completed their comeback from five down with Fitzgibbon’s 10th white flag.
The crowd on Leeside brought back memories of last year’s Munster Championship classic but this contest was played on different terms. The greasy surface, crossfield wind, and constant drizzle made it a battle of wills.
Cork began with eight of last year’s championship starters compared to Limerick’s seven.
With Declan Dalton suspended and Robert Downey and Seán O’Donoghue injured, Pat Ryan made four changes from their win over Wexford with Eoin Roche, Ciarán Joyce, Ethan Twomey, and Alan Connolly drafted in.
John Kiely handed Jason Gillane his debut in the number one jersey in the race to replace injured Nickie Quaid and he struck two eye-catching frees.
Kyle Hayes started at centre-back while a new-look attack featured impressive performances from Aidan O’Connor and Patrick O’Donovan.
The first half was a curious affair as Cork burst out of the traps with seven points inside 12 minutes, but only scored once more for the remainder of the half.
Luke Meade had been called up after Robert Downey’s withdrawal and he scored the opener before winning a free for Fitzgibbon to convert. Twomey made it a three-point head start.
O’Connor got Limerick on the board but Fitzgibbon popped over the next two frees.
After an O’Donovan free, Fitzgibbon picked off his first from play followed by Shane Kingston for a 0-7 to 0-2 lead.
Pádraig Power departed clutching his wrist as the introduction of Patrick Horgan drew a big cheer from the home support.
After Kingston’s point, Cork wouldn’t score again for another 17 minutes. Indeed, there was only one score in the subsequent 11-minute stretch but it was a big one.
Kyle Hayes hoovered up a loose clearance and located William O’Donoghue all alone in front of the Cork goal. His shot deceived Patrick Collins to find the net.
Limerick reeled off the next three points through an Adam English free, O’Donovan, and new captain Cian Lynch.
Cork were crowding bodies back to deny Limerick space, but their careless deliveries to outnumbered attackers left them devoid of a scoring threat in this spell.
A Tim O’Mahony free from inside his own half couldn’t break Treaty momentum and O’Donovan twice more punished sloppy Cork play to make it 1-7 to 0-8.
Reidy had to track back to make a goal-saving block on Kingston to keep it that way at half-time.
Seán Finn didn’t re-emerge after the break, William O’Donoghue didn’t return after a temporary substitution, and Conor Lehane lasted only three minutes before departing with his arm wrapped inside his jersey.
Limerick added four of the first five after the interval, including an English pair before Cork got back into this contest in the 43rd minute.
A neat passing move involving Meade and Brian Hayes began and ended with Shane Barrett as the Blarney man bounced the sliotar home. They trailed by two, 1-11 to 1-9, now.
But debutant keeper Gillane pointed two frees, including one from deep inside his own half, to lead by four with seven minutes of regulation time to play.
Brian Hayes was credited with deflecting over a long-range free and added another soon after before Fitzgibbon made it a one-score game in the second added minute.
English doubled the cushion, but there was enough time for Fitzgibbon to grab a draw.
Scorers for Cork: Darragh Fitzgibbon 0-10 (9fs), Shane Barrett 1-0, Brian Hayes 0-2, Tim O’Mahony (f), Ethan Twomey, Shane Kingston, Luke Meade 0-1 each.
Scorers for Limerick: Adam English (3fs), Patrick O’Donovan (1f) 0-4 each, William O’Donoghue 1-0, Jason Gillane (2fs), Cian Lynch, Aidan O’Connor 0-2 each, Diarmaid Byrnes (f) and Shane O’Brien 0-1 each.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Eoin Roche, Ger Millerick, Niall O’Leary; Tim O’Mahony, Ciarán Joyce, Cormac O’Brien; Luke Meade, Ethan Twomey; Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett, Shane Kingston; Brian Hayes, Pádraig Power, Alan Connolly.
Subs: Patrick Horgan for Power (17, inj), Mark Coleman for Kingston (49), Conor Lehane for Connolly (59), Brian Roche for Lehane (62, inj), Robbie Cotter for Barrett (67).
Limerick: Jason Gillane; Seán Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Murphy; Diarmaid Byrnes, Kyle Hayes, Colin Coughlan; Adam English, William O’Donoghue; Gearóid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Aidan O’Connor; Donnacha Ó Dálaigh, Shane O’Brien, Patrick O’Donovan.
Subs: David Reidy for Hegarty (15, temp), Fergal O’Connor for Finn (HT), Cian Scully for Byrnes (45), Séamus Flanagan for Ó Dálaigh (49), Micheál Houlihan for O’Donovan (50), Eddie Stokes for O’Donoghue (57, temp).
Referee: Seán Stack (Dublin).