{"id":231223,"date":"2026-01-06T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:07:07","slug":"kerry-and-cork-pick-up-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231223\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry and Cork pick up victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerry edged their McGrath Cup Group A clash against Clare 0-16 to 0-14 on Tuesday night, holding off a strong second-half showing from the Banner in Clarecastle.<\/p>\n

Jack O’Connor started three of last summer’s All-Ireland final-winning team: Jason Foley, Mike Breen and Se\u00e1n O’Brien.<\/p>\n

They were 0-12 to 0-05 ahead by half-time thanks to scores from Tom\u00e1s Kennedy (0-04), Cian O’Grady (0-03), Thomas O’Donnell (0-02), Gear\u00f3id Hassett, Daniel Kirby and Charlie Keating (0-01 each).<\/p>\n

However led by Cian O’Grady and Eoin Cleary, Clare started to eat into the deficit. They got back to within three points before Sean Broderick (’45’) and Darragh O’Connor gave Kerry a bit more breathing space, and they were able to see it out even after Dermot Coughlan nailed a late two-pointer.<\/p>\n

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\nSe\u00e1n McDonnell of Cork goes on the attack at Cappawhite GAA club<\/p>\n

In Group B Cork hammered Tipperary 1-26 to 0-10 in Cappawhite.<\/p>\n

The Rebels made a lightning start, Ruair\u00ed Deane fisting to the net to finish off a sweeping move just three minutes in. That put Cork 1-03 to no score ahead and they didn’t let up.<\/p>\n

By half-time they led 1-11 to 0-04, the points continuing to rain in during a lopsided contest.<\/p>\n

Sean McDonnell (0-06), Deane (1-01), Mark Cronin (0-04), Colm O’Callaghan (0-03), Cathail O’Mahony, Rory Maguire, Brian Jurley (0-02 each), Se\u00e1n Walsh, Luke Murphy, Steven Sherlock, Matthew Taylor, Denis O’Connor and Conor Cahalane (0-01 each) did the scoring for Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry edged their McGrath Cup Group A clash against Clare 0-16 to 0-14 on Tuesday night, holding off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-231223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231223","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=231223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}