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\u00c9anna \u00d3 Conch\u00fair, An Ghaeltacht, under pressure. Pic: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n\n Munster Club IFC final: An Ghaeltacht (Kerry) 2-12 (2-2-8) Aghabullogue (Cork) 1-8 (1-3-2)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
An Ghaeltacht secured their second Munster Intermediate crown in eight years with a seven-point victory over Aghabullogue at Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale.<\/p>\n
Kerry\u2019s dominance at this grade was extended to 17 titles in 19 attempts as their representatives stretched away in the final 10 minutes in front of 1,216 supporters.<\/p>\n
Their bid for an All-Ireland breakthrough will begin with a semi-final against Kildare champions Sallins or Tubberclair of Westmeath.<\/p>\n
The first half teetered between manic moments and controlled football. There were a couple of lead changes, but the sides were only level at the midway whistle; An Ghaeltacht\u2019s 1-6 to Aghabullogue\u2019s 2-3.<\/p>\n
The Mid Cork side were backed by a decent wind advantage, but the men from Slea Head controlled the ball for the most part.<\/p>\n
They were also able to punch through the Aghabullogue rearguard on repeat in those early exchanges. Against a defence with seven clean sheets from eight games, that was no mean feat.<\/p>\n
It started with Brian \u00d3 Beaglaoich and \u00c9anna \u00d3 Conch\u00fair combining to send Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 (DC) through, only for John Buckley to produce an excellent save.<\/p>\n
An Ghaeltacht took their first three placed balls short, signalling the strength of the breeze. Their ball retention was such, though, that their patience paid off by the eighth minute. They kept the move going until \u00d3 Beaglaoich offloaded for the rampaging \u00d3 Conch\u00fair to thump into the bottom corner of the net.<\/p>\n
Aghabulllogue wouldn\u2019t raise a white flag all half, but were fuelled by two-pointers. Captain John Corkery booted their opening orange flag.<\/p>\n
In the 10th minute, they were ahead. Paul Ring forced \u00d3 Beaglaoich to overcarry, and they transferred the ball downfield for Matthew Bradley to cut inside for a goal.<\/p>\n
\u00c9anna \u00d3 Conch\u00fair, An Ghaeltacht, under pressure. Pic: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n
The game\u2019s third goal arrived by the 12th minute. There was brief confusion whether An Ghaeltacht had breached the 4v3 rule (they hadn\u2019t) as \u00d3 Beaglaoich zigzagged across the halfway line. That inadvertently created space for him to surge forward before releasing Ruaidhr\u00ed \u00d3 Beaglaoich to make it 2-0 to 1-2. Brian \u00d3 Beaglaoich and Ring were booked for some afters.<\/p>\n
The Kerrymen moved further ahead with points from Ruaidhr\u00ed and Cathal \u00d3 Beaglaoich, and a Gavin \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide free.<\/p>\n
Aghabullogue brought Ois\u00edn O\u2019Connell in to help steady their defence. Ruaidhr\u00ed \u00d3 Beaglaoich had another half-chance of goal spoiled as the underdogs countered for a Corkery two-pointer. A huge Adam Murphy effort on the stroke of half-time brought them level. Aghabullogue\u2019s tally of 1-6 was mined from just six shots.<\/p>\n
It took them 19 minutes to add to that total. After former Cork dual star Aidan Walsh won the throw-in, An Ghaeltacht almost profited from a shot dropped short, but \u00d3 S\u00e9 punched wide. \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide found his radar from beyond the arc for a go-ahead two-pointer. \u00d3 Conch\u00fair and a Cathal \u00d3 Beaglaoich 45 extended their lead to four.<\/p>\n
Aghabullogue\u2019s chance to claw their way back into contention slipped away when Bradley\u2019s shot was saved by Se\u00e1n \u00d3 Luing.<\/p>\n
They did get back within one score through Aaron O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s point, but An Ghaeltacht sped away with four-point streak from Conch\u00far \u00d3 Corrduibh, Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9, and Cathal \u00d3 Beaglaoich\u2019s two-pointer.<\/p>\n
Both teams ended with 14-a-side after a black card for Cian \u00d3 Murch\u00fa and a second booking for Ring in the final play.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for An Ghaeltacht: Ruaidhr\u00ed \u00d3 Beaglaoich, \u00c9 \u00d3 Conch\u00fair (1-1 each); C \u00d3 Beaglaoich (0-4, 1tp, 1 45); G \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide (0-3, 1tp, 1f); P \u00d3 S\u00e9, T \u00d3 S\u00e9 (DC), C \u00d3 Corrduibh (0-1 each).<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Aghabullogue: M Bradley (1-1); J Corkery (0-4, 2tp); A Murphy (0-2, tp); A O\u2019Sullivan (0-1).<\/p>\n
\n AN GHAELTACHT: S \u00d3 L\u00faing; C \u00d3 Murch\u00fa, R\u00f3n\u00e1n \u00d3 Beaglaoich, A Mac Amhlaoibh; P \u00d3 S\u00e9, B \u00d3 Beaglaoich, A \u00d3 Beaglaoich; A Breathnach, C \u00d3 Beaglaoich; G \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide, Ruaidhr\u00ed \u00d3 Beaglaoich, PJ Mac L\u00e1imh (capt); C \u00d3 Riag\u00e1in, \u00c9 \u00d3 Conch\u00fair, T \u00d3 S\u00e9 (DC).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: PP Sauerland for R\u00f3n\u00e1n \u00d3 Beaglaoich (30, inj), C \u00d3 Corrduibh for \u00d3 Riag\u00e1in (42), S \u00d3 Gairbh\u00ed for \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide (48), S \u00d3 Cuinn for Ruaidhr\u00ed \u00d3 Beaglaoich (58), C Mac Gearailt for T \u00d3 S\u00e9 (60+1).<\/p>\n
\n AGHABULLOGUE: J Buckley; C Smyth, D Merrick, P Dilworth; P Ring, S Tarrant, B O\u2019Sullivan; C Gillespie, A Murphy; A O\u2019Sullivan, J Corkery (capt), P O\u2019Sullivan; M Bradley, E O\u2019Sullivan, L Casey.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Ois\u00edn O\u2019Connell for Tarrant (19), David Thompson for Casey (35), C O\u2019Sullivan for P O\u2019Sullivan (38, inj), Odhr\u00e1n O\u2019Connell for E O\u2019Sullivan (55).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: J Hayes (Limerick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster Club IFC final: An Ghaeltacht (Kerry) 2-12 (2-2-8) Aghabullogue (Cork) 1-8 (1-3-2)\u00a0 An Ghaeltacht secured their second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6937,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-178192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178192","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=178192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}