{"id":161151,"date":"2025-11-26T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161151\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:05:10","slug":"skibbereen-cs-find-st-brendans-too-strong-losing-to-the-kerry-side-by-24-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161151\/","title":{"rendered":"Skibbereen CS find St Brendan’s too strong losing to the Kerry side by 24 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Brendan\u2019s, Killarney 4-23 (4-2-19)<\/p>\n

Skibbereen CS 0-11 (0-1-9)<\/p>\n

St Brendan\u2019s, Killarney booked their place in the quarter-final of the Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed with a 24-point victory over Skibbereen CS on Wednesday afternoon in this Group 4 game.<\/p>\n

The Sem knew they needed at least an eight-point victory for safe passage to the knockouts – they did that and then some – but victory for Clonakilty against Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig, was the cherry on top, securing second place for the Kerrymen.<\/p>\n

Forwards Ben Kelleher and Liam O\u2019Brien were on form for The Sem, contributing 1-16 of their side\u2019s scores on the day.<\/p>\n

\" Niall O’Callaghan claims possession in the air for Skibbereen against Mark Kennelly, St Brendan’s College. Corn U\u00ed Mhuiri football – St Brendan’s College v Skibbereen at SuperValu\u00a0P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh 4G. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

The Sem had the ball in the net after just the 4th minute of play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was hardly the most aesthetically pleasing goal, however, Ben Kelleher was quickest to a ball in the square, poking it into the net to give his side some early encouragement.<\/p>\n

The sides traded scores (1-3 to 0-4 to The Sem) until the quarter-hour mark, when the Killarney school began to take hold of the contest, putting together a five-score streak – four points for Liam O\u2019Brien including a towering two-point effort from a free plus a Ben Kelleher free off his right side.<\/p>\n

\" Defender Anthony Cremin, St Brendan’s College is chased by Will O’Donovan, Skibbereen. Corn U\u00ed Mhuiri football – St Brendan’s College v Skibbereen at SuperValu\u00a0P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh 4G. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

Skibbereen weren\u2019t ready to roll over though and put together a five-point streak of their own at the end of the half, bringing it to a two-point game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kelleher would point from a free just before the whistle to nudge The Sem three ahead.<\/p>\n

The second half painted a different picture, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sem came out all guns blazing from the restart, posting a quick-fire 0-3 thanks to usual suspects O\u2019Brien and Kelleher plus a finely finessed effort by half-forward Joey McCarthy.<\/p>\n

Skibb\u2019s O\u2019Sullivan took his point nicely from a free to pull one back but after this the flood gates opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sem would claim 13 of the next 14 scores including three goals from John Henderson, Mark Kenneally and sub Jack Dempsey.<\/p>\n

Scorers for Skibbereen: L O\u2019Sullivan 0-4 (1tp, 2f), D McCarthy 0-4, J Goulding, O Herlihy and N O\u2019Callaghan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

Scorers for St Brendan\u2019s: L O\u2019Brien 0-10 (2tp, 4f), B Kelleher 1-6 (3f), J Henderson, J Dempsey and M Kenneally 1-0 each, S Scroope and M O\u2019Carroll 0-2 each, J McCarthy, B Walsh and C Clifford 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

SKIBBEREEN: A Limrick (Castlehaven); D Courtney (Castlehaven), A Daly (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), N McCarthy (O\u2019Donovan Rossa); M Murphy (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), J Goulding (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), A Demsey (O\u2019Donovan Rossa); P Collins (Ilen Rovers), N O\u2019Callaghan (Castlehaven); O Herlihy (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), D McCarthy (Castlehaven), W O\u2019Donovan (Clann na nGael); E O\u2019Donovan (Castlehaven), L O\u2019Sullivan (O\u2019Donovan Rossa), A Whooley (Ilen Rovers).<\/p>\n

Subs: R Collins (O\u2019Donovan Rossa) for D Courtney (HT), C Daly (Ilen Rovers) for O Herlihy (HT), M Hurley (Ilen Rovers) for W O\u2019Donovan (40), E Buckley (Castlehaven) for N McCarthy (55), R Hourihane (O\u2019Donovan Rossa) for A Whooley (62).<\/p>\n

ST BRENDAN\u2019S: C Mitchell (Spa); D McCarthy (Listry), A Cremin (Firies), B O\u2019Connor (Legion); C Clifford (Dr Crokes), Z Cronin (Kilcummin), J Nash (Dr Crokes); M Kennelly (Fossa), B Walsh (Legion); F Blackwell (Legion), J McCarthy (Spa), M O\u2019Carroll; L O\u2019Brien (Glenflesk), B Kelliher (Dr Crokes), J Henderson (Firies).<\/p>\n

Subs: C Stack (Kilcummin) for B O Connor (HT), S Scroope (Legion) for J Henderson (45), J Hallissey (Fossa) for C Clifford (53), J Dempsey (Milltown Castlemaine) for J McCarthy (55), C Breen (Fossa) for F Blackwell (58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Brendan\u2019s, Killarney 4-23 (4-2-19) Skibbereen CS 0-11 (0-1-9) St Brendan\u2019s, Killarney booked their place in the quarter-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-161151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161151","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=161151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}