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\nGavin D’Auria of Eire \u00d3g Ennis (R) takes on St Finbarr’s Eoin McGreevy<\/p>\n
St Finbarr’s (Cork) 3-20 \u00c9ire \u00d3g Ennis (Clare) 0-14<\/p>\n
For the second time this season, Brian Hayes fired a hat-trick past Clare opponents as St Finbarr\u2019s marched onto a Munster SFC final meeting against Daingean U\u00ed Ch\u00fais.<\/p>\n
The All-Star hurler ended with 3-03 as the Cork champions defeated \u00c9ire \u00d3g Ennis by 15 points at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
The Barrs also ensured that they remain the only club to achieve a Munster double for another year after ending \u00c9ire \u00d3g\u2019s dual ambitions.<\/p>\n
Half their team will line out against Ballygunner in next Sunday\u2019s hurling showpiece.<\/p>\n
The Cork city club could yet attain another double of their own after their camogie side took provincial honours on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u00c9ire \u00d3g shaded a first quarter played with a gusting wind at their backs. After Rickey Barrett kicked the Barrs’ opener, the Clare champions replied through Darren Moroney.<\/p>\n
Mark McInerney\u2019s two-point shooting was their major weapon, and he launched the lead score off his left from beyond the arc in the ninth minute.<\/p>\n
Ethan Twomey cut the margin to the minimum before two McInerney frees extended \u00c9ire \u00d3g\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
\nGavin D’Auria of Eire \u00d3g Ennis (R) takes on St Finbarr’s Eoin McGreevy<\/p>\n
Twomey could\u2019ve levelled on the quarter-hour, but Cian Howard advanced to make a fine save. Steven Sherlock kept the ball low into the wind to convert the subsequent 45.<\/p>\n
That moment triggered an unanswered 1-08 streak, fuelled by the Barrs\u2019 fierce kick-out press.<\/p>\n
The 18th-minute goal was started and finished by Hayes. He won Darragh Newman\u2019s kick-out on the sideline outside his own 45. His kick forward found Enda Dennehy, who laid off for Maguire. The county man spotted his midfield partner charging forward with intent.<\/p>\n
Hayes shot for a point, but the ball dipped inside Howard\u2019s near post and into the net for a 1-03 to 0-05 lead.<\/p>\n
They pressed on with points from William Buckley, John Wigginton-Barrett, and Hayes, by which stage six different players had accounted for their six white flags.<\/p>\n
Sherlock had their next before Wigginton-Barrett sent Hayes through on goal again. This time, his shot was deflected over by Gavin D\u2019Auria.<\/p>\n
A Sherlock free made it 1-10 to 0-05. When \u00c9ire \u00d3g filtered the ball back into McInerney\u2019s hands, he returned to tormenting the Barrs. He followed a white flag with his second two-pointer. This time, he kicked it with his right boot after conjuring space from nowhere with two sidesteps.<\/p>\n
The Barrs led 1-10 to 0-08 at half-time and resumed with a Twomey goal chance, which was fired over the bar. John Wigginton-Barrett also aimed too high when through, but Hayes produced a lethal low finish for his second goal in the 45th minute after alert play by Luke Hannigan.<\/p>\n
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\nBrian Hayes celebrates scoring his side’s second goal<\/p>\n
McInerney slotted a two-point free to bring his tally to 0-10, but Hayes ended with a flourish when picked out by Eoin McGreevy for a calmly dispatched hat-trick goal.<\/p>\n
Sherlock\u2019s two-pointer added the cherry on top.<\/p>\n
St Finnbarr’s: D Newman; A O\u2019Connor, B Hennessy, S Ryan; C Dennehy, C Doolan, E Dennehy (0-01); I Maguire, B Hayes (3-03); E Twomey (0-02), J Wigginton-Barrett (0-04), W Buckley (0-01); L Hannigan, R Barrett (0-02), S Sherlock (0-06, 1tp, 1f, 2 45s).<\/p>\n
Subs: E McGreevy for Buckley (50), C Myers-Murray (0-01) for Barrett (50), T Egan for Hannigan (51), B O\u2019Connell for C Dennehy (51), J Burns for Hennessy (56).<\/p>\n
\u00c9ire \u00d3g Ennis: C Howard; M Doherty (0-01), A Fitzgerald, D Ryan; C Russell, G D\u2019Auria, D Moroney (0-01); D McNamara, D O\u2019Brien; J Collins, G Murray (0-02), R Lanigan; L Pyne, I Ugwueru, M McInerney (0-10, 2tp, 1tpf, 2f).<\/p>\n
Subs: J Joyce for O\u2019Brien (43), A McGrath for Collins (48), N McMahon for Moroney (53).<\/p>\n
Referee: S Lonergan (Tipperary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Finbarr’s (Cork) 3-20 \u00c9ire \u00d3g Ennis (Clare) 0-14 For the second time this season, Brian Hayes fired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-156192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156192","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=156192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}