{"id":409391,"date":"2026-04-21T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:00:12","slug":"classy-minors-advance-to-all-ireland-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409391\/","title":{"rendered":"Classy minors advance to All Ireland decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minor A All-Ireland Championship Semi Final<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny 0-16 Cork 0-11<\/p>\n<p>By PRO Team<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny Minors secure their spot in the Minor A All-Ireland Final.<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny made the better start and put the pressure on from the throw in. Ona Kennedy dropped in a free which was batted out resulting in a 45, Ona wasn\u2019t taking any second chances this time and pointed her first free of the game.\u00a0 Points from Amy O\u2019Shea and Emily Phelan followed.\u00a0 Emily subjected to pulling and dragging was awarded a free in which Ona Kennedy pointed her second free of the game.\u00a0 It was not till the 11th minute when Corks Lexi Manley pointed her first free of the game.\u00a0 Kilkenny\u2019s hard-working Shauna Mahony added a point to the scoreboard before Corks Lea Meillouin added their second point and last score of the first half in the 16th minute.\u00a0 Unanswered points from Kilkenny\u2019s Hollie Ryan (3), Ona Kennedy (2f), Amy O\u2019Shea and Shauna Mahony left Kilkenny in a very good position at the half time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Half time score: Kilkenny 0-12 Cork 0-02<\/p>\n<p>Corks Orla Troy tapped her first point over the bar followed by three frees in a row from Lexi Manley.\u00a0 Kilkenny and Cork were back and forth with points from O. Kennedy (f), L. Manley, O. Kennedy (f), L. Manley (f) before Shauna Mahony added her third point. Lea Meillouin and Orla Troy added their second points before Lexi Manley added another point to her overall tally.\u00a0 The last score of the game came from Kilkenny\u2019s Ona Kennedy as she accurately pointed her seventh free.<\/p>\n<p>Scorers:-<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny \u2013 Ona Kennedy 0-7(7f), Hollie Ryan, Shauna Mahony 0-3 each, Amy O\u2019Shea 0-2, Emily Phelan 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Cork \u2013 Lexi Manley 0-7(5f), Lea Meillouin, Orla Troy 0-2 each<\/p>\n<p>Teams:-<\/p>\n<p>Kilkenny \u2013 Ella Walton, Hannah Tennyson, Erin Morrissey, Mairead Duggan, Ciara Hickey, Ona Kennedy, Chloe Teehan, Shannon Doheny, Eleanor Doheny, Aoife O\u2019Grady, Shauna Mahony, Hollie Ryan, Emily Phelan (Joint Capt), Ruth Crowley, Amy O\u2019Shea<\/p>\n<p>Subs:- Ellen Treacy for Amy O\u2019Shea, Sadhbh Shefflin for Shannon Doheny, Tara Cody for Ruth Crowley, Katie O\u2019Shea for Aoife O\u2019Grady, Orla Duggan, Ali Greaney, Sinead Jones, Aoibhinn Ryan, Leah O\u2019Donovan (Joint Capt), Lucy Coomey, Emma Hogan, Lily Ryan, Oonagh Fitzgerald, Sinead Henderson, Niamh Drennan, Emily Cooney<\/p>\n<p>Cork \u2013 Katie Crowley, Tara O\u2019Neill, Ava Ashman, Sophie Donohue, Aoibhinn Halpin, Caoimhe O\u2019Donnell, Millie Lombard, Orla Troy, Caoilinn Ryan, Clara Murphy, Lexi Manley, Lauren O\u2019Connor, Cliona Harte, Lea Meillouin, Leah Hannigan<\/p>\n<p>Subs:- Caoimhe Foley for Clara Murphy, Erin Healy for Lauren O\u2019Connor, Ciara Hayes for Aoibhinn Halpin, Aoife Collins, Blaithin Cunniffe, Faye Ronan, Karen O\u2019Sullivan, Sarah Galvin, Eimear Barrett, Eanna Duff, Ashling O\u2019Brien, Rebecca Hannigan, Ciara Roche, Stephanie Dwyer, Gemma Classen.<\/p>\n<p>Ref:- Ray Kelly<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy PRO<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Mon 20th Apr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minor A All-Ireland Championship Semi Final Kilkenny 0-16 Cork 0-11 By PRO Team Kilkenny Minors secure their spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-409391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409391","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=409391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}