{"id":510793,"date":"2026-06-21T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510793\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:01:34","slug":"cork-minors-overpower-derry-to-march-on-to-all-ireland-final-against-tyrone-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510793\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork minors overpower Derry to march on to All-Ireland final against Tyrone \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-Ireland MFC semi-final: Cork 2-19 (2-1-17) Derry 2-8 (2-0-8)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Munster champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-gaa\/\">Cork<\/a> booked themselves an All-Ireland final berth in cruising to a comfortable 11-point win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/derry-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/derry-gaa\/\">Derry<\/a> at Parnell Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goalkeeper Rory Twohig (0-5) and Tom Whooley (1-2) top-scored for the winners, and free-taker Eoghan Ahern hit 0-4, while Don Mulholland and Neil McDermott scored three points apiece for a competitive Derry side that faded badly in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cork ran in two to the good at half-time, leading 0-11 to 2-3 after the Rebels had enjoyed the better start when captain Joe Miskella tapped over in their first attack before Twohig landed the first of his five points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/gaelic-games\/2026\/06\/19\/fast-finishing-tyrone-see-off-kildare-to-reach-all-ireland-mfc-final\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fast-finishing Tyrone see off Kildare to reach All-Ireland MFC finalOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Derry responded with the opening goal of the game in the fifth minute, when Conor O\u2019Kane jinked passed Twohig to finish to the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But Ben Hegarty levelled matters soon after before Derry scored a second goal on 10 minutes through Rocco Devlin. Neil McDermott\u2019s 15th-minute free left the Oakleafers 2-1 to 0-4 ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cork kept the scoreboard ticking thereafter, hitting four scores to no reply, the highlight being a two-pointer from Twohig to push the Rebels to a 0-9 to 2-1 lead. The sides shared the last four points of the half to leave Cork two up for the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Derry enjoyed the quicker restart, putting themselves into a one-point lead by the 38th minute, 2-6 to 0-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But Cork found their footing once again, and fought back with 10 of the next 11 scores for an unassailable 2-19 to 2-7 lead, including goals from man-of-the-match Whooley and substitute Alex O\u2019Herlihy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Derry captain Don Mulholland scored the last point of the game, but it was too little, too late while the impressive young Cork men progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CORK: R Twohig (0-1-3), R McCormack, A O\u2019Sullivan, C Garvey, D O\u2019Sullivan (0-0-1), C Downing, E Lynch, K O\u2019Shea, C Murphy, E Ahern (0-0-4, 3f), B Hegarty (0-0-2, 1f), J Miskella (0-0-2), T Whooley (1-0-2), J Barry, D Herlihy (0-0-1). Subs: P Kelly for A O\u2019Sullivan (ht), K O\u2019Donovan (0-0-2) for J Barry, A O\u2019Herlihy (1-0-0) for D Herlihy (both 43 mins), F O\u2019Donovan for D O\u2019Sullivan (47), D O\u2019Mahony for C Garvey (50).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DERRY: M Doherty, D McEldowney, C Sargent, D McKaigue, J McCartney, C Campbell, L Higgins, G Gormley, J Mullan, C O\u2019Kane (1-0-0), D Mulholland (0-0-3), N McDermott (0-0-3, 2f), T Devlin (0-0-1), T Bradley (0-0-1), R Devlin (1-0-0). Subs: P McPeake for J McCartney (45 mins), C McGuckin for T Devlin (50), T Scullion for C Campbell (51), C McDonnell for T Bradley (52), U McCloskey for G Gormley (61).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland MFC semi-final: Cork 2-19 (2-1-17) Derry 2-8 (2-0-8) Munster champions Cork booked themselves an All-Ireland final berth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1964,17769,110979,61,60,6398,43],"class_list":["post-510793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-gaa","tag-derry-gaa","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-match-report","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510793","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=510793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}