Electric Ireland Munster MFC Final<\/p>\n
Cork 1-13 Kerry 0-14<\/p>\n
(After extra-time)<\/p>\n
By Stephen Barry at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn<\/p>\n
Cork captured their first provincial football silverware since 2022 with an extra-time triumph over Kerry to register their 32nd Electric Ireland Munster minor title.<\/p>\n
A pair of frees from goalkeeper Rory Twohig proved the crucial scores to spark scenes of jubilation among the red contingent of the 2,066 crowd at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn.<\/p>\n
Cork and Kerry progress to face the Leinster finalists, Meath and Kildare, who play on Friday, in the All-Ireland quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Marc \u00d3 S\u00e9\u2019s side showed five changes from their 10-point group-stage defeat to Cork. They were tuned in from the start to lead 0-4 to 0-0 after 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Fionn O\u2019Dowd, L\u00fac Mac Gearailt, and two Daragh Keane frees got the Kingdom up and running. Twohig also made early saves from Danny Murphy and Keane.<\/p>\n
It took Cork 18 minutes to score, through midfielder Kieran O\u2019Shea, who was named man of the match.<\/p>\n
They would pull level by half-time without any forward scoring. Goalkeeper Twohig booted a two-point free and, after a Danny Lane response, wing-backs \u00c9anna Lynch and Conrad Murphy made it 0-5 apiece.<\/p>\n
Keane won and converted a two-point free to restore Kerry\u2019s lead on the resumption. Ben Hegarty was gifted a goal chance when Kerry botched a solo-and-go, but Se\u00e1n Sargent tipped his shot over the bar.<\/p>\n
Next time, they left with the green flag. Jacob Barry gathered Eoghan Ahern\u2019s diagonal ball in his stride and lashed low to the corner for 1-6 to 0-7.<\/p>\n
Keane\u2019s second orange-flag free levelled before points from O\u2019Dowd and Cian Stack, when eyeing goal, pushed them ahead.<\/p>\n
Eoin Mangan saved Kerry from a certain goal in the 51st minute. After Sargent lost possession, the corner-back jetted off the line to intercept captain Joe Miskella\u2019s pass for Riley O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n
Donal Herlihy and Hegarty brought the hosts level for a third time before Cillian Moynihan chipped Kerry in front.<\/p>\n
Cork had another goal chance when a short kick-out mix-up sent Tom Whooley through. He chose to tap over the equaliser.<\/p>\n
Morgan Corkery tipped another opportunity onto the post and, in a frantic finish, that was as close as anyone came to a winner; 1-9 to 0-12 at full-time.<\/p>\n
Cork had five wides in the first period of extra-time and Stack made two further blocks, but the hosts still led by one at the change of ends. A Twohig free and O\u2019Donovan point were followed, at the other end, by an O\u2019Dowd free, which was advanced 50 metres for dissent.<\/p>\n
Further frees from Twohig and Hegarty gave Cork a goal\u2019s cushion. Timmy Kennelly pulled one back, but a late two-point levelling attempt was pulled wide.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Cork: Rory Twohig 0-4 (1 2ptf, 2f); Jacob Barry 1-0; Ben Hegarty 0-3 (1f); \u00c9anna Lynch, Kieran O\u2019Shea, Conrad Murphy, Tom Whooley, Donal Herlihy, Riley O\u2019Donovan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Kerry: Daragh Keane 0-6 (2 2ptf, 2f); Fionn O\u2019Dowd 0-3 (1f); Cian Stack, L\u00fac Mac Gearailt, Danny Lane, Cillian Moynihan, Timmy Kennelly 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Cork: Rory Twohig; Conor Garvey, Gabriel Oronsaye, Riain McCormack; \u00c9anna Lynch, Conor Downing, Conrad Murphy; Ben Hegarty, Kieran O\u2019Shea; Darragh O\u2019Sullivan, Joe Miskella, Eoghan Ahern; Tom Whooley, Jacob Barry, Alex O\u2019Herlihy.<\/p>\n
Subs: Donal Herlihy for O\u2019Herlihy (h-t), Peadar Kelly for Garvey (h-t), Morgan Corkery for O\u2019Sullivan (41), Riley O\u2019Donovan for Barry (50), Donncha O\u2019Mahony for Miskella (53), Miskella for Downing (78), Miche\u00e1l Walsh for Whooley (80), Mark Power for Lynch (80).<\/p>\n
Kerry: Se\u00e1n Sargent; John Breen, Eoin Mangan, Conor Clifford; Mikey Corridon, Cian Stack, Daith\u00ed Laide; Maidhc \u00d3 S\u00e9, Jack Collins; L\u00fac Mac Gearailt, Danny Murphy, Cillian O\u2019Donoghue; Danny Lane, Fionn O\u2019Dowd, Daragh Keane.<\/p>\n
Subs: Mikey Somers for Collins (40), Tom Slattery for O\u2019Donoghue (43), Cillian Moynihan for Lane (53), Cillian Fitzgerald for Laide (56), Samuel Scroope for Mac Gearailt (65), Lane for Keane (h-t e-t), Timmy Kennelly for \u00d3 S\u00e9 (h-t e-t).<\/p>\n
Referee: Gary Twomey (Clare).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Munster MFC Final Cork 1-13 Kerry 0-14 (After extra-time) By Stephen Barry at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-455612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455612","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=455612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}