TUS Dr Harty Cup Final<\/p>\n
Nenagh CBS 0-20 St Flannan\u2019s College, Ennis 0-18<\/p>\n
By Stephen Barry at Zimmer Biomet P\u00e1irc Ch\u00edos\u00f3g<\/p>\n
Eoghan Doughan struck 0-12 in a man-of-the-match performance before lifting Nenagh CBS\u2019s second TUS Dr Harty Cup in front of 6,909 fans after a fierce tussle with St Flannan\u2019s at Zimmer Biomet P\u00e1irc Ch\u00edos\u00f3g.<\/p>\n
It took over a century for the North Tipperary school\u2019s first Harty title to arrive. Their second came just two years later at the same venue by battling back from five points behind against the hometown side.<\/p>\n
Captain Doughan, the sole remaining starter from that triumph, took his total to 4-63 across six games as they delivered a 20th Harty title for Tipp schools, and the county\u2019s fourth in a row.<\/p>\n
It piled more final misery on Flannan\u2019s, who lost the corresponding Dean Ryan final to Nenagh two years ago and the Harty final to Thurles CBS last year.<\/p>\n
Both sides lined out without county talents in Billy O\u2019Brien (Nenagh) and Dara Kennedy (Flannan\u2019s). Amid a light fog at the Ennis venue, Flannan\u2019s opened brightly by getting their inside threats into the game with Darragh McNamara and Thomas O\u2019Connor points.<\/p>\n
Centre-back Dara O\u2019Dwyer put Nenagh on the board. A Doughan free and Patrick Ryan soon had them level at 0-3 apiece.<\/p>\n
But Nenagh wouldn\u2019t score for the next nine minutes as Flannan\u2019s gained superiority across the field. Their five-point streak began and ended with those ball-winners McNamara and O\u2019Connor mining scores. In between, Harry Doherty tagged on two frees and Isaac Hassett grabbed another from play.<\/p>\n
Trailing by 0-8 to 0-3, Nenagh made two vital switches. Doughan had been nullified at centre-forward by Conor Hill. Nenagh moved him inside, where the Moneygall stickman was able to find space breaking out to the wings. In the final 10 minutes of the half, Doughan scored points off left and right from either sideline and one from a long ball into the square.<\/p>\n
With full- and centre-backs Shane Cleary and O\u2019Dwyer swapping, that set the platform for Doughan to add three more frees. Austin Duff and Patrick Hackett, having been moved out to the half-forward line, also split the posts.<\/p>\n
Flannan\u2019s didn\u2019t hit back-to-back points for the remainder of the half, with Graham Ball and Eoin O\u2019Connor stemming the tide. They needed Doherty\u2019s fourth point to level at the break; 0-11 apiece.<\/p>\n
McNamara\u2019s third nudged Flannan\u2019s ahead, but Doughan and Joe O\u2019Dwyer, back on from some treatment for a blood injury, were motoring nicely to provide Nenagh\u2019s first two-point lead.<\/p>\n
Doherty scored from play, but missed a levelling free before Doughan\u2019s 10th point reinstated their two-point advantage.<\/p>\n
However, Darragh Ball was dropped deep to limit the supply to Doughan as Flannan\u2019s came back with the next three points. Doherty slotted two placed balls, including one after James Cullinan\u2019s run was cynically stopped, and Colm Daly hit the lead score.<\/p>\n
Nenagh hadn\u2019t scored for 11 minutes now, while KJ Dunne flashed a goal attempt across the posts. O\u2019Dwyer sparked them to life with a 51st-minute equaliser. The Burgess corner-forward won the first of two Doughan frees and Hackett added the other for a 0-20 to 0-17 lead.<\/p>\n
Doherty\u2019s eighth point cut the deficit before Ryan\u2019s attempts at a clinching goal was blocked by Darragh Murrihy. But once Nenagh choked up the final ball into the square, they were champions again.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Nenagh CBS: Eoghan Doughan 0-12 (8fs); Austin Duff, Patrick Hackett, Joe O\u2019Dwyer 0-2 each; Dara O\u2019Dwyer, Patrick Ryan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Scorers for St Flannan\u2019s: Harry Doherty 0-8 (5fs, 1 65); Darragh McNamara 0-3; Thomas O\u2019Connor 0-2; Colm Daly, Graham Ball, Isaac Hassett, Patrick Finneran, Eoin O\u2019Connor 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
NENAGH CBS: Paddy McCormack; Diarmuid Fogarty, Shane Cleary, Cormac Kennedy; Emmett Jones, Dara O\u2019Dwyer, Johnny Grace; Hugo Healy, Austin Duff; Patrick Ryan, Eoghan Doughan, Paul Cahalan; Joe O\u2019Dwyer, Patrick Hackett, \u00c9anna Tucker.<\/p>\n
Subs: Tom Boland for J O\u2019Dwyer (26-h-t, blood), Boland for Tucker (HT), Rian McGrath for Cahalan (44), KJ Dunne for Healy (48), Charlie Kennedy for J O\u2019Dwyer (60+1), Daniel McKelvey for Hackett (60+4).<\/p>\n
ST FLANNAN\u2019S: Leon Talty; Darragh Ball, Se\u00e1n McNamara, Darragh Murrihy; James Cullinan, Conor Hill, Colm Daly; Graham Ball, Isaac Hassett; Harry Doherty, Patrick Finneran, Rory Ralph; Eoin O\u2019Connor, Thomas O\u2019Connor, Darragh McNamara.<\/p>\n
Subs: John Barry for D Ball (28-29, blood), Barry for Hassett (38), Jason Keane-Hayes for Finneran (45), Ben Talty for Ralph (53), David Loftus for E O\u2019Connor (56).<\/p>\n
Referee: Thomas Walsh (Waterford).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUS Dr Harty Cup Final Nenagh CBS 0-20 St Flannan\u2019s College, Ennis 0-18 By Stephen Barry at Zimmer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-275059","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\/275059","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=275059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}