Katie Quirke struck 0-10 as a rampant Cork outfit made short work of Kerry, winning by double scores in this fourth round Lidl Division 1 encounter at a windswept and bitterly cold Austin Stack Park in Tralee.<\/p>\n
Kerry made five changes to the side that defeated Meath in the previous round with long term injury victim C\u00e1it Lynch a significant loss to the side. Cork made two changes to the side that defeated Armagh in the last round and set about their business with intent.<\/p>\n
Cork played with the aid of the strong breeze in the first half and certainly made the advantage count as they dominated proceedings and took a 0-14 to 0-0 lead in at half time.<\/p>\n
Quirke slotted nine of Cork’s opening half points, with a magnificent three from play as she tormented an overworked Kerry defence whilst Aimee Corcoran, Grace N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa, Leah Hallahan and Sadbh McGoldrick all found the target as Cork totally dismantled the home side\u2019s kickouts.<\/p>\n
Kerry\u2019s cause wasn\u2019t helped by the sin-binning of Kellie McGrath in the tenth minute or the concession of three frees due to breaches, with Cork punishing two of them on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
Although Kerry failed to score, they will also point to three missed goal chances with Cork custodian Sarah Murphy making two fine saves from Rachel Dwyer and Kelly Enright, and Mary O\u2019Connell very unlucky to rattle the post in the 25th minute, but it was Cork who took a 14 point lead in at the break.<\/p>\n
Kerry, with the wind at their backs in the second period outscored their opponents by 0-8 to 0-2 with Danielle O\u2019Leary and Siofra O\u2019Shea landing notable two-pointers, but in truth Cork were never threatened with Emma Cleary and the brilliant Quirke getting their scores.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Shea had a brace of scores at the start of the second half and further scores from the hard working Niamh N\u00ed Chonch\u00fair and Anna Galvin kept the home side ticking over but it was Cork who remain unbeaten in this season\u2019s campaign whilst Kerry must go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n
Cork face Waterford next weekend and Kerry face Galway.<\/p>\n
Kerry: C Butler; E N\u00ed Laighin, A Doherty, A Dillane; K Brosnan, E Lynch, K McGrath; M O\u2019Connell, C Evans; M O\u2019Connor, N N\u00ed Chonch\u00fair 0-01, K Enright; S O\u2019Shea 0-04, R Dwyer, N Quinn.<\/p>\n
Subs: K Furey for A Doherty (14), D O\u2019Leary 0-02 for M O\u2019Connor (24), A Galvin 0-01 for E Lynch, J Lynch for K McGrath, J Lucey for N Quinn (all half-time), L McMahon for R Dwyer (39), M Mulvihill for C Evans (47), J Curtin for M O\u2019Connell (57).<\/p>\n
Cork: S Murphy; M Duggan, D Kiniry, S Kelly; A Corcoran 0-01, S McGoldrick 0-01, R Corkery; A Healy, A O’Mahony; R Leahy, G N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa 0-01, E Cleary 0-01; L Hallahan 0-01, K Quirke 0-10 (6f), R O\u2019Regan 0-01.<\/p>\n
Subs: C Hughes for G N\u00ed Mhurchu (48), E Hurley for R Leahy (51), A Ring for L Hallahan, A O\u2019Sullivan for R O\u2019Regan , K Redmond for A O\u2019Mahony (all 54), K O\u2019Driscoll for A Corcoran, S Callanan for R Corkery (both 58).<\/p>\n
Referee: Jonathan Murphy (Carlow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Quirke struck 0-10 as a rampant Cork outfit made short work of Kerry, winning by double scores…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-312028","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\/312028","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=312028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}