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Cork’s Tadhg McCarthy breaks from Clare’s Colm Daly. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n\n Cork 1-22\n <\/p>\n
\n Clare 1-12\n <\/p>\n
Cork put themselves in a strong position to reach the Electric Ireland Munster MHC final as they saw off Clare at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Having lost to Tipperary a fortnight ago, a rematch with the Premier County is within reach after a composed display that still has room for improvement.<\/p>\n
Cork were able to call upon captain Eoin Considine at wing-back and Callum Coffey \u2013 one of two survivors from last year \u2013 in the inside forward line and both played key roles.<\/p>\n
Coffey\u2019s four points from play were just one element of a good all-round showing while Considine\u2019s strength and aerial ability were major assets \u2013 one of his skyscraping catches set in motion the move that ended with Coffey playing in Tadhg McCarthy for the game\u2019s crucial score, the goal to make it 1-11 to 1-6 on 33 minutes.<\/p>\n
Cork’s Tadhg McCarthy breaks from Clare’s Colm Daly. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
Their cushion restored, Cork were able to ease clear, with Coffey landing a nice point following good work from Stephen McHugh and Cathal Barry while goalscorer McCarthy landed a beauty from the sideline.<\/p>\n
Further green flags might have come \u2013 Liam O\u2019Regan fired a shot across the face of goal while Cian Maxted got enough of a hook on a Coffey effort to take the sting out of it and Patrick Murphy saved from sub Ryan Cagney \u2013 but the Cork defence did not look like allowing Clare a way back into the contest.<\/p>\n
Bobby Power added late points from play and frees to finish with 0-8 as Cork moved 11 clear before Clare\u2019s Ben Talty had the last score.<\/p>\n
The Banner, who conclude their round-robin programme with two points, must wait on the outcomes of next week\u2019s games to see if they can make the All-Ireland quarter-finals while Cork know that the avoidance of defeat against Limerick at the same venue will send them to the decider.<\/p>\n
Donal Mulcahy\u2019s side didn\u2019t trail at any stage in the first half but, while they created goal openings more than once, they were unable to take those opportunities and were wasteful with point attempts.<\/p>\n
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Cork’s Stephen McHugh racing away from Clare’s Oran Duignan. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
It meant that a comfortable four-point lead of 0-8 to 0-4 was wiped out quickly after James O\u2019Donnell\u2019s fine goal for Clare on 27 minutes was followed by a pointed free from Ben Talty.<\/p>\n
However, the Rebels reacted well and Considine and Se\u00e1n Riordan combined to set up Coffey, with a foul on him allowing Ring to get his third.<\/p>\n
Then, in injury time, hard work from the impressive Power yielded a long-range free \u2013 they had proven troublesome up to then but Power pointed for a 0-10 to 1-5 lead and Riordan extended that within a minute of the restart.<\/p>\n
A three-point lead became six with the goal \u2013 Clare felt there was some over-carrying in the move \u2013 and from there Cork built their lead to put themselves in a good position ahead of next week\u2019s clash with Limerick.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Cork: B Power 0-8 (0-4 f), T McCarthy 1-2, C Coffey 0-4, S Ring 0-3 (0-2 f), C Murphy 0-2, T Murphy, S Riordan, R Cagney 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Clare: B Talty 0-6 (0-4 f), J O\u2019Donnell 1-2, I Hassett, C Mullins, M Sheehan, P Murphy (0-1 f) 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n CORK: M Walsh (Youghal); J Batterbury (Castletownroche), F Cahill (Midleton), N Coffey (Na Piarsaigh); E Considine (Sarsfields), D Nolan (Erin\u2019s Own), C Barry (Bride Rovers); S Riordan (Kilworth), S McHugh (Newtownshandrum); T McCarthy (Watergrasshill), B Power (Ballincollig), L O\u2019Regan (St Finbarr\u2019s); S Ring (Carrigtwohill), C Coffey (Na Piarsaigh), C Murphy (Ballinora).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: T Murphy (Cloughduv) for Riordan (41), R Cagney for O\u2019Regan (45), T Huggins (Sarsfields) for McCarthy, D Barry (Douglas) for Murphy (both 53), G Kingston (Mallow) for Considine (58).<\/p>\n
\n CLARE: P Murphy; M Fitzpatrick, C Maxted, O Perill; P Murphy, C Daly, S Connellan; O Duignan, I Hassett; J O\u2019Donnell, G Madden, C Mullins; D McKenna, N Belenko, B Talty.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D Seery for Duignan, F Daffy for Madden (both 43), C Coffey for McKenna, M Sheehan for Belenko (50), S Daly for Connellan (53).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: C Ryan (Tipperary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork 1-22 Clare 1-12 Cork put themselves in a strong position to reach the Electric Ireland Munster MHC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-427640","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\/427640","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=427640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}