All-Ireland SFC Round One<\/p>\n
Cork 0-30 Meath 1-24<\/p>\n
By Stephen Barry at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn<\/p>\n
Cork repeated their 14-man league success over Meath in front of 8,526 fans at a fired-up P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn to move within one match of an All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
Back in February, it was Ian Maguire sent off for the final 13 minutes. This time, his midfield partner Colm O\u2019Callaghan was dismissed on a straight red with 19 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Their lead was soon cut to one, but a Steven Sherlock two-pointer, his 14th point of the afternoon, and a last-gasp Conor Corbett point secured the valuable win.<\/p>\n
The Royals, who had won their last meeting in the Division Two league final, led by nine points before half-time. After a 12-point turnaround, they head for the last chance saloon.<\/p>\n
Robbie Brennan made extensive changes to the Meath team named on Friday. Charlie O\u2019Connor was called up for his championship debut, while S\u00e9amus Lavin, Ronan Ryan, and James Conlon were also introduced.<\/p>\n
In further changes, Jack Flynn, Ruair\u00ed Kinsella, and Adam McDonnell were added to the bench. Brian O\u2019Halloran, Adam O\u2019Neill, Jack O\u2019Connor, and Aaron Lynch switched from the starting team to the subs. A late, fifth change to the starting team saw Kinsella replace Cathal Hickey.<\/p>\n
John Cleary settled for one late change as David Buckley replaced Ruair\u00ed Deane at wing-forward for his first championship start. Brian Hurley was added to the bench.<\/p>\n
Conlon had Meath\u2019s first two white flags before a fluffed short kick-out led to a goal chance, with Kinsella smacking the crossbar as the ball ricocheted over.<\/p>\n
The teams traded new-rule frees for Se\u00e1n Brennan and Sherlock two-pointers before O\u2019Callaghan and a Sherlock free made it 0-7 to 0-5 for Cork.<\/p>\n
The first half would turn on a pair of five-point swings. First, Brennan recovered from an intercepted kick-out to tip a Mark Cronin goal chance onto the post. Meath countered for a Kinsella orange flag and Conlon added another. Instead of a five-point Cork lead, Meath led by two; 0-9 to 0-7.<\/p>\n
At the other end, Se\u00e1n McDonnell had a half-chance smothered by Brennan. They trailed by one when their next opportunity arrived. Bryan Menton blocked Luke Fahy\u2019s shot and Meath countered for an Eoghan Frayne two-pointer.<\/p>\n
They capitalised on the next two kick-outs, with Ciar\u00e1n Caulfield exchanging a one-two with Jordan Morris for the 27th-minute goal before a second Frayne orange flag for 1-14 to 0-9.<\/p>\n
They ended by sharing four points and two goal chances, with the best opening for Se\u00e1n Coffey repelled by O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s boot. Meath led by eight, 1-16 to 0-11, at half-time.<\/p>\n
The Royals had kicked five two-pointers to one as the breeze stiffened across the first half. Cork exploited the conditions for four orange flags on the resumption to lead by three, 0-23 to 1-17, by the 46th minute.<\/p>\n
A Cronin free, advanced to the edge of the arc, and Buckley brought Cork within range. They were ahead when Sherlock lofted over a brace from outside the arc in the space of a minute.<\/p>\n
Brennan landed his second two-point free in the next play and it was still delicately poised when O\u2019Callaghan was flashed a straight red card for what Brendan Cawley judged as a strike on Kinsella in the 51st minute.<\/p>\n
Conlon\u2019s seventh point and Kinsella\u2019s fourth got Meath level by the 59th minute. A Cronin free nudged Cork back ahead and they appeared to have a goal from Ian Maguire, which was ruled out for a square ball.<\/p>\n
A Cronin free was cancelled out by Kinsella before Sherlock\u2019s fourth orange flag separated the sides. Meath had three late wides and one shot dropped short as Corbett countered for the insurance score.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Cork: Steven Sherlock 0-14 (3 2pt, 1 2ptf, 5f, 1 45); Mark Cronin 0-5 (1 2ptf, 1f); David Buckley 0-3 (1 2pt); Colm O\u2019Callaghan 0-2; Maurice Shanley, Daniel O\u2019Mahony, Ian Maguire, Paul Walsh, Chris \u00d3g Jones, Conor Corbett 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Meath: James Conlon 0-7 (1 2pt); Eoghan Frayne (2 2pt, 1f), Ruair\u00ed Kinsella (1 2pt) 0-5 each; Se\u00e1n Brennan 0-4 (2 2ptf); Ciar\u00e1n Caulfield 1-0; Jordan Morris 0-2; Mathew Costello 0-1.<\/p>\n
Cork: Patrick Doyle; Maurice Shanley, Se\u00e1n Meehan, Daniel O\u2019Mahony; Brian O\u2019Driscoll, Tommy Walsh, Luke Fahy; Colm O\u2019Callaghan, Ian Maguire; Paul Walsh, Se\u00e1n McDonnell, David Buckley; Mark Cronin, Chris \u00d3g Jones, Steven Sherlock.<\/p>\n
Subs: Ruair\u00ed Deane for McDonnell (53), Se\u00e1n Walsh for Buckley (57), Rory Maguire for Fahy (57), Conor Corbett for P Walsh (62).<\/p>\n
Meath: Se\u00e1n Brennan; Ronan Ryan, Se\u00e1n Rafferty, S\u00e9amus Lavin; Donal Keogan, Se\u00e1n Coffey, Ciar\u00e1n Caulfield; Cian McBride, Bryan Menton; Mathew Costello, Charlie O\u2019Connor, Ruair\u00ed Kinsella; Jordan Morris, James Conlon, Eoghan Frayne.<\/p>\n
Subs: Jack Flynn for Menton (45), Jack O\u2019Connor for Kinsella (52-53, temp), J O\u2019Connor for C O\u2019Connor (54), Cathal Hickey for Frayne (57), Brian O\u2019Halloran for Rafferty (63), Aaron Lynch for Conlon (65).<\/p>\n
Referee: Brendan Cawley (Kildare).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Round One Cork 0-30 Meath 1-24 By Stephen Barry at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn Cork repeated their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-463989","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\/463989","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=463989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}