{"id":378946,"date":"2026-04-02T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378946\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:34:09","slug":"pa-white-scores-a-hat-trick-as-midleton-see-off-killeagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378946\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa White scores a hat-trick as Midleton see off Killeagh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Killeagh 1-10<\/p>\n

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Midleton 5-19<\/p>\n

A hat-trick of goals from Pa White helped Midleton to a third straight RedFM Hurling League Division 1 victory as the formlines held true at Killeagh on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

With two wins already claimed, the Magpies rarely looked as if they would be denied making it three from three against a home side that had already suffered a pair of defeats.<\/p>\n

While a free from Ryan McCarthy and a point from Andrew Leahy did have Killeagh in an early 0-2 to 0-1 lead, White\u2019s first goal \u2013 created by Alex Quirke after a good puckout win \u2013 put the visitors in front and they pushed on impressively from there.<\/p>\n

Mikey Finn\u2019s free to make it 1-8 to 0-3 on 22 minutes marked the first instance of a Midleton player scoring twice and that was followed by the second goal. Se\u00e1n O\u2019Sulivan, excellent in defence throughout, sent a good ball to White, who fed Quirke and he in turn played in Paul Connaughton for a good finished.<\/p>\n

Though McCarthy replied for Killeagh, who had lost centre-back Gary Leahy to injury in the game\u2019s opening stages, Midleton struck again as Connaughton set up Ross O\u2019Regan for the third goal and they retired with a 3-10 to 0-4 advantage.<\/p>\n

Finn had his fourth point on the restart before Killeagh had some cheer as Fionn Brennan\u2019s pass allowed David Buckley to cleverly create space before shooting to the net. However, Midleton immediately replied in kind, with Evan McGrath\u2019s long delivery well won by the influential Quirke, whose handpass allowed White to double home.<\/p>\n

\"Killeagh\u2019sKilleagh\u2019s Andrew Leahy about to shoot as Midleton’s Carthaigh Cronin closes in. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\n

Points followed from Finn (two) and Conor Morley to leave it 4-14 to 1-4 and, from the puckout after the latter, White did well to turn over possession and score his third and Midleton\u2019s fifth goal.<\/p>\n

Twenty minutes remained at that stage but the life seeped out of the game thereafter, with McCarthy and Finn exchanging points from dead balls. Midleton might have had a sixth goal at the death after more fine work from Quirke created a chance for sub Cathal Beausang but goalkeeper Fionn Murphy did well to deny him.<\/p>\n

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Scorers for Killeagh: R McCarthy 0-8 f, D Buckley 1-0, A Leahy, P O\u2019Brien 0-1 each.\n <\/p>\n

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Midleton: P White 3-1, M Finn 0-10 (0-7 f, 0-1 65), R O\u2019Regan 1-1, P Connaughton 1-0, C Stack, C Morley 0-2 each, E McGrath, E McCarthy, A Mulcahy 0-1 each.\n <\/p>\n

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KILLEAGH: F Murphy; K Kelly-Budds, G Wallace Walsh, J Fogarty; E Lane, G Leahy, S Long; Ciar\u00e1n Leahy, M Fitzgerald; R McCarthy, P O\u2019Brien, F Brennan; Colm Leahy, A Leahy, D Buckley.\n <\/p>\n

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Subs: J Coleman for G Leahy (6, injured), J Ogbebor for Ciar\u00e1n Leahy (half-time), E Keniry for Long (40), S Walsh for Brennan, P Mackey for Buckley (both 50).\n <\/p>\n

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MIDLETON: B Rossiter; S O\u2019Sullivan, A Fay, C Cronin; E McGrath, T O\u2019Leary Hayes, E McCarthy; M Finn, A Mulcahy; R O\u2019Regan, A Quirke, C Morley; C Stack, P White, P Connaughton.\n <\/p>\n

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Subs: C Gunning for Cronin (38), N Coughlan for Morley, E Fraser for McCarthy (both 42), J Hogan for Mulcahy, C Beausang for Stack (both 50), T Dunlea for McGrath (53), D Egan for Finn, C Crowley for Fay, D Scanlon for Connaughton (all 55).\n <\/p>\n

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Referee: B Sweeney (Erin\u2019s Own).\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Killeagh 1-10 Midleton 5-19 A hat-trick of goals from Pa White helped Midleton to a third straight RedFM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-378946","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\/378946","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=378946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}