Miche\u00e1l Aodh Martin: The big call beforehand, restoring the Nemo keeper to the number one geansa\u00ed ahead of Patrick Doyle, who had struggled with his kick-outs in the league final.<\/p>\n
He was against a very strong wind in the first half with Cork retaining seven of his 11 restarts. In the second half it was eight-six and one of the misplaced kick-outs cost Cork a penalty and Brian O\u2019Driscoll to a black-card. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Maurice Shanley: Top display in the league final against Meath and solid throughout here. Could have had a late goal but Jeffrey Alfred made a solid stop. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Daniel O’Mahony: One of Cork\u2019s leaders and most consistent performers from full-back but this was a match where much of the action was beyond his reach. Minded the house and Limerick only scored two from play from their starting inside forwards. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Sean Meehan: Good tidy game and was able to get up the field regularly due to Cork\u2019s dominance in the first half. Pegged back across that very sloppy second period. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Brian O’Driscoll: With Cork on the front foot he collected the world of ball in the first half and had the freedom to attack. Had a hand of two of Cork\u2019s first-half goals with clever passes.<\/p>\n
Second half was a nightmare as he was in the sin-bin for 10 minutes before being sent off on his return. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Tommy Walsh: Roared up twice in the space of a minute in the first half to set up Dara Sheedy\u2019s opening goal and then blasted the net himself. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Luke Fahy: Heavily involved from the throw-in. Clipped over a lovely first-half point and two superb turnovers in the middle third resulted in 1-1. Quieter second half, like many of his team-mates. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ian Maguire: Took his goal brilliantly, dummying the keeper and rolling the ball home with the outside of his foot. Made his size count on kick-outs as you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n
Had three second-half assists when Cork only managed 0-6. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Colm O’Callaghan: Game bypassed him a bit in the opening period, with Cork\u2019s half-back line carrying possession. Caught a few restarts with the wind but not as forceful as previous matches this season. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Paul Walsh: Another fine showing from the Kanturk club man. Fisted the first point and angled over a neat score on the run in the second half. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Dara Sheedy: Burst through and rammed home his first senior goal and showed his worth as a link-man from centre-forward too.<\/p>\n
Took a hefty hit coming up to half-time, which was a concern as he also has U20 commitments. Sensibly withdrawn but Cork missed his energy. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Sean McDonnell: Flicked in a goal in the first half. Faded out of the game a bit after the break. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Mark Cronin: Hit the ground running on Sunday and had 0-3 on board by the break. Like a number of his team-mates, just couldn\u2019t get motoring in the second half. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Chris \u00d3g Jones: Against the wind he was starved of possession but split the posts with his first touch after 19 minutes and then set up McDonnell\u2019s goal. Raised a second white flag but just didn\u2019t get quality possession. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Steven Sherlock: Had a terrific second quarter, landing a 45 into the teeth of the wind and firing two from play while dictating the tempo of the attack. Wasn\u2019t able to find his rhythm after half-time, like most of the forwards. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Subs:\n <\/p>\n
\n Conor Cahalane: Came on for Sheedy, first as a temporary sub and then at half-time. Very impressed 35 minutes where he contributed three of Cork\u2019s six points. 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n Brian Hurley: Kicked a good point and steadied the ship in the last 20 minutes. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Conor Corbett: Full of running in the fourth quarter, setting up two scores and a good goal chance for Shanley. 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ruair\u00ed Deane, Darragh Cashman, David Buckley: Not on long enough to rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Aodh Martin: The big call beforehand, restoring the Nemo keeper to the number one geansa\u00ed ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4365,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-395110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-gaelic-football","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\/395110","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=395110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}