{"id":410981,"date":"2026-04-22T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:45:10","slug":"avondhu-impress-as-they-power-past-imokilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410981\/","title":{"rendered":"Avondhu impress as they power past Imokilly\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avondhu: 1-16 (1-1-14)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imokilly: 1-6 (1-1-4)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Avondhu had too much for Imokilly in the third round of the unseeded divisions\/colleges section of the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC at Glantane on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

As a result, the North Cork men advance to the seeded section, where they will face Muskerry in June in the last four. Duhallow and Carbery contest the other semi-final.<\/p>\n

Avondhu were deserving winners. They carried extra quality and composure, perhaps helped by having two championship games already played compared to just one for Imokilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They led by six points at the short whistle with a good spread of scorers and ultimately won by ten, a margin that was maybe a little harsh on Imokilly.<\/p>\n

Avondhu were driven on by the excellent Ben Twomey up front, who maybe goes under the radar.<\/p>\n

Avondhu burst from the traps with three points inside six minutes from their full-forward line of David and Conor Hanlon and a Twomey effort. Mark O\u2019Rourke replied for Imokilly, but they were second best for long spells.<\/p>\n

\" Imokilly’s Daniel Murnane is tackled by Avondhu’s Aaron Trimm. Picture: David Keane<\/p>\n

Avondhu hit two of the next three points and, even though Daniel Murnane slotted over a two-point free, the North Cork outfit carried more swagger. Another Twomey point and a sweet Mark Lenahan effort pushed them 0-7 to 0-4 clear after 18 minutes.<\/p>\n

There were just three further scores before the break, all for Avondhu, two Conor Hanlon frees and a Mark Lenahan white flag. Imokilly had their chances but five wides proved costly, leaving it 0-10 to 0-4 at half-time.<\/p>\n

The second half began much like the first. A Mark Lenahan two-pointer gave Avondhu a healthy eight-point cushion. A Murnane free \u2014 Imokilly\u2019s first score in 21 minutes \u2014 was badly needed but didn\u2019t spark a revival.<\/p>\n

Twomey had a goal chance but failed to convert, before Conor Hanlon pointed to make it 0-13 to 0-5 after 40 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\" Imokilly’s Ciar\u00e1n O’Leary shoots past Avondhu’s Lorcan Finn. Picture: David Keane<\/p>\n

The sides traded points before Ciar\u00e1n O\u2019Leary goaled for Imokilly after a Diarmaid Phelan pass with five minutes left, 0-14 to 1-6.<\/p>\n

Twomey steadied Avondhu again with a point, and they finished with a flourish with a wonderfully placed goal into the bottom corner from Twomey and a final point from substitute Greg Lardner.<\/p>\n

Scorers for Avondhu: B Twomey 1-3 (0-1 f), M Lenahan 0-5 (1 2pt), C Hanlon 0-4 (0-2 f), D Hanlon 0-2, K Lenahan, G Lardner 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

Imokilly: C O\u2019Leary 1-1, D Murnane 0-3 (1 2pt f, 0-1 f), M O\u2019Rourke, S McSharry 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

AVONDHU: R Donovan (Buttevant); P O\u2019Neill (Fermoy), R Murphy (Mitchelstown), L Finn (Mitchelstown); S O\u2019Callaghan (Liscarroll\/Churchtown Gaels), K Bowles (Buttevant), J Whelan (Buttevant); A O\u2019Neill (Buttevant), C O\u2019Brien (Liscarroll\/Churchtown Gaels); M Lenahan (Buttevant), M O\u2019Neill (Buttevant), A Trimm (Buttevant); D Hanlon (Buttevant), C Hanlon (Buttevant), B Twomey (Fermoy).<\/p>\n

Subs: D Lardner (Fermoy) for M O\u2019Neill (6, inj), G Lardner (Fermoy) for P O\u2019Neill (40), K Lenahan (Buttevant) for A O\u2019Neill (42), A Finnegan (Ballyclough) for A Trimm (52), E Birchall (Killavullen) for C Hanlon (61).<\/p>\n

IMOKILLY: C Whyte (Castlemartyr); D Healy (Dungourney), A Mulcahy (Midleton), K O\u2019Shea (Aghada); D Collins (Aghada), J Horgan (Carrigtwohill), S de B\u00farca (Carrigtwohill); M O\u2019Rourke (Cobh), D Joyce (Castlemartyr); T Hartnett (Aghada), D Phelan (Aghada), D Kearney (Cobh); C O\u2019Leary (Glenville), D Murnane (Carrigtwohill), T O\u2019Donovan (Carraig na bhFear).<\/p>\n

Subs: E McGrath (Midleton) for D Collins (37), M Kelly (Castlemartyr) for D Kearney (40), S McSharry (Midleton) for D Murnane (42), G Keating (Cobh) for A Mulcahy (49), C Hegarty (Aghada) for S de B\u00farca (54).<\/p>\n

Referee: Jerry Kelleher (St John\u2019s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avondhu: 1-16 (1-1-14)\u00a0 Imokilly: 1-6 (1-1-4)\u00a0 Avondhu had too much for Imokilly in the third round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-410981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410981","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=410981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}