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Midfielder Kevin O’Leary in action for Colaiste Choilm. Pic: Larry Cummins<\/p>\nSt Brendan’s College gave their TUS Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed campaign the jump-start it needed at Bishopstown on Wednesday, but not without a test from Col\u00e1iste Choilm.<\/p>\n
Trailing by six points early in the second half, the Ballincollig school battled back well, with a goal from Se\u00e1n Murphy the catalyst for a revival as they drew level.<\/p>\n
While they could never get ahead, they only trailed by a point following a nice Joe Miskella score but the two breaches in quick succession after that allowed Ben Kelliher to tap over frees for St Brendan\u2019s on each occasion.<\/p>\n
An excellent point by wing-back Colm Herlihy and a Miskella free left the minimum in it as the game moved into injury time but Col\u00e1iste Choilm, who lost centre-back Cian O\u2019Connor to a second yellow late on for dissent, were unable to get the ball into a scoring position to generate an equalising opportunity.<\/p>\n
Despite the setback, all is not lost for Col\u00e1iste Choilm – a win over Clonakilty CC in the last match in a fortnight would be enough for them to qualify for the knockout stages.<\/p>\n
Having lost to Clon in their opener while Col\u00e1iste Choilm beat Skibbereen CS, St Brendan\u2019s were under pressure coming into the game but they settled well.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Kevin O’Leary in action for Colaiste Choilm. Pic: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n
In the tenth minute, having won a turnover free, Bryan Walsh fed Joey McCarthy, whose superb pass picked out Liam O\u2019Brien – he still had a lot to do but produced rasping shot to the top corner.<\/p>\n
That made it 1-1 to 0-2 and while Col\u00e1iste Choilm\u2019s immediate response was good – Cian Ahern with a mazy run leading to a goal after good work from Luke O\u2019Mahony and Miskella – the Killarney school began to get on top.<\/p>\n
Kerry minor star Kelliher might have had a goal but for a fine stop from Nathan Tait but he and O\u2019Brien continued to keep scoreboard ticking over. While McCarthy was unlucky not to have a two-pointer – Tait touched the ball over and the old rule reducing such a score to one is in place for another month and a half – Kelliher did raise an orange flag coming up to half-time while Mark O\u2019Connell also tested Tait in injury time. Brendan\u2019s were good value for the 1-7 to 1-2 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
The severity of the weather was shown by the fact that both teams reappeared in new jerseys for the second period but there seemed to be more of the same when McCarthy set up O\u2019Brien on the restart to put Brendan\u2019s six ahead. Col\u00e1iste Choilm showed good resolve, though.<\/p>\n
With O\u2019Connor and Kevin O\u2019Leary strong around the middle, they got a foothold again and Ahern\u2019s point was followed by a good move leading to a goal – Miskella setting up Cathal Murphy, whose shot was saved by Kacper Robak only for Se\u00e1n Murphy to prod home the rebound.<\/p>\n
Impressive sub Riain Coakley had them level, but Brendan\u2019s settled again and Murphy was on hand to push them two clear once more. While Col\u00e1iste Choilm did their best to stay with them, it was to be St Brendan\u2019s day.<\/p>\n
Scorers for St Brendan\u2019s College: L O\u2019Brien (1-5, 2f), B Kelliher (0-6, 1 2pt, 3f), J McCarthy (0-1).<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Col\u00e1iste Choilm: C Ahern (1-3, 1 2pt, 1f), J Miskella (0-2, 1f), S Murphy (1-0), L O\u2019Mahony, R Coakley, C Herlihy (0-1 each).<\/p>\n
\n ST BRENDAN\u2019S COLLEGE: K Robak (Dr Crokes); D McCarthy (Listry), Z Cronin (Kilcummin), J Nash (Dr Crokes); J Rudden (Glenflesk), B Walsh (Legion), J Aherne (Kilcummin); F Doyle (Fossa), M Kennelly (Fossa); F Blackwell (Legion), J McCarthy (Spa), M O\u2019Connell (Dr Crokes); L O\u2019Brien (Glenflesk), B Kelliher (Dr Crokes), J Henderson (Firies).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: A Cremin (Firies) for Doyle (8, injured), B O\u2019Connor (Legion) for Nash (42), J Dempsey (Milltown-Castlemaine) for Henderson (55), L Hennigan (Dr Crokes) for Blackwell (59).<\/p>\n
\n COL\u00c1ISTE CHOILM: N Tait (\u00c9ire \u00d3g); D Sheehan (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), P Rose (Ballincollig), E O\u2019Donovan (Ballincollig); C Herlihy (Inniscarra), C O\u2019Connor (Ballincollig), A Rose (Ballincollig); K O\u2019Leary (Ballincollig), B Cronin (Ballincollig); M Delaney (Ballincollig), C Ahern (Ballincollig), S Murphy (\u00c9ire \u00d3g); C Murphy (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), L O\u2019Mahony (Ballincollig), J Miskella (Ballincollig).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: R Coakley (\u00c9ire \u00d3g) for Delaney (40), S Dineen (Ballinora) for C Murphy (51), A Kennedy (Ballinora) for O\u2019Mahony (54).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: C Dineen (Douglas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Brendan’s College gave their TUS Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed campaign the jump-start it needed at Bishopstown on Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60131,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-136981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-gaa-corn-ui-mhuiri","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}