\u200bElectric Ireland All-Ireland minor football championship final<\/p>\n
Cork 2-16 Tyrone 1-16<\/p>\n
By Paul Keane at Cedral St Conleth’s Park, Newbridge<\/p>\n
Cork are Electric Ireland minor football champions for the first time in seven years after clinching a landmark title success thanks to a thrilling second-half revival in Newbridge.<\/p>\n
Behind by 0-7 to 1-13 with 39 minutes on the clock, it didn’t look particularly good for Cork as they trailed a Tyrone side chasing back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n
But Keith Ricken’s Cork rose superbly to the occasion and outscored the Red Hands by 2-9 to 0-3 from there on to claim a 12th title at the grade for the county.<\/p>\n
Cork did have the stiff breeze behind them for the second half but they also turned in the 20 minutes or so of their young lives.<\/p>\n
Captain Joe Miskella’s 0-3 haul, a single and a two-pointer, ignited the comeback and goals from substitute Alex O’Herlihy and Eoghan Aherne, who finished with 1-5, hauled Cork back from the brink to clinch a landmark win.<\/p>\n
Miskella, son of Cork great John Miskella, finished with 0-5 while Jacob Barry and Tom Whooley contributed vital points also as Cork turned the screw impressively.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Rory Twohig pulled off a series of important saves too and etched his name in the county’s history books.<\/p>\n
Cork trailed for the majority of the game and only actually regained the lead when Aherne netted after a stunning solo run in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n
For manager Ricken, who had a spell in charge of the seniors in 2022, it is an impressive double having already managed Cork to an All-Ireland U-20 title in 2019.<\/p>\n
But it will be a bitter pill for Ger Donnelly and his Tyrone crew to swallow having led by seven points at half time and extended that lead to nine in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Tyrone trailed by two points at half time in last year’s final win over Kerry before summoning a powerful second-half display to take the title.<\/p>\n
This time around, against another Munster powerhouse, they were the ones with the interval advantage and it was a significant one, 1-10 to 0-6.<\/p>\n
Miskella nailed an early two-pointer to leave the Munster champions 0-3 to 0-1 to the good.<\/p>\n
But from there on, it was all about the collective work rate, intensity and quality of an excellent Tyrone team.<\/p>\n
Over the next 13 minutes or so, Tyrone reeled off 0-9 without response, applying a powerful press on Rory Twohig’s kick-outs and taking full advantage as the Cork goalkeeper struggled to find red jerseys.<\/p>\n
Cork retained just six out of 12 of Twohig’s kick-outs in the first half and, during this period of Tyrone dominance, coughed up five in a row.<\/p>\n
Matthew F Daly, who came on in last year’s final, sourced Tyrone’s fifth point from a turnover on Twohig’s kick-outs as Cork sought desperately to regain a foothold in the game.<\/p>\n
Tyrone got another huge boost when Aodhan Corry netted from the penalty spot in the 26th minute, Gormley fouled by Conor Downing after being expertly played in by Matthew J Daly.<\/p>\n
Cork finished the half with a couple of points from free-takers Aherne and Ben Hegarty but could have done with a goal. Donal Herlihy and Barry both had shots blocked while Miskella smashed a 17th minute effort off the bar.<\/p>\n
Ruair\u00ed O’Neill struck the bar for Tyrone too with a ninth minute lobbed effort so they were good value for their seven-point lead at the break.<\/p>\n
Tyrone got the gap out to nine, 1-13 to 0-7, before suffering their own kick-out malfunction.<\/p>\n
From three Ronan O’Neill kick-outs that were won by Cork, the young Rebels turned those possessions into 1-3, sub O’Herlihy netting in the 42nd minute after recycling Hegarty’s two-point attempt that dropped short.<\/p>\n
In all, Cork scored an unanswered 1-5 to cut the deficit to the bare minimum as Tyrone clung on to a 1-13 to 1-12 lead approaching the three-quarter mark.<\/p>\n
It was all Cork now and they were further inspired by Twohig saves from Tyrone shots by McGuckin and Corry.<\/p>\n
Tyrone briefly took the lead after a McGuckin point in the 58th minute, 1-16 to 1-15, but that Aherne goal clinched it for Cork, prompting a pitch invasion afterwards as Newbridge was engulfed in a sea of red.<\/p>\n
Cork scorers: Eoghan Aherne 1-5 (0-3f), Joe Miskella 0-5 (2 tp), Alex O’Herlihy 1-1, Tom Whooley 0-2, Conrad Murphy 0-1, Ben Hegarty 0-1 (0-1f), Jacob Barry 0-1.<\/p>\n
Tyrone scorers: Vincent Gormley 0-6 (1 tp), Aodhan Corry 1-0 (1-0 pen), Conan Canavan 0-3 (1 tpf, 0-1f), Brian \u00d3g McGuckin 0-3 (0-1f), Matthew F Daly 0-3, Tom\u00e1s Gallen 0-1.<\/p>\n
Cork: Rory Twohig; Conor Garvey, Aaron O’Sullivan, Riain McCormack; Conor Downing, \u00c9anna Lynch, Conrad Murphy; Kieran O’Shea, Eoghan Aherne; Darragh O’Sullivan, Joe Miskella, Ben Hegarty; Donal Herlihy, Tom Whooley, Jacob Barry.<\/p>\n
Subs: Gabriel Oronsaye for Garvey 22, Alex O’Herlihy for Herlihy h\/t, Peadar Kelly for O’Sullivan 36, Kevin O’Donovan for Barry 48, Donnncha O’Mahony for Murphy 64.<\/p>\n
Tyrone: Ronan O’Neill; Aidan Farley, James Maguire, Tiernan McCarron; Matthew J Daly, Aodhan Corry, Conor Fyffe; Tom\u00e1s Gallen, Charlie Meenan; Ruair\u00ed O’Neill, Matthew F Daly, Logan O’Connor; Conan Canavan, Brian \u00d3g McGuckin, Vincent Gormley.<\/p>\n
Subs: Conall Shevlin for Fyffe 28, Ciar\u00e1n McKeown for Canavan 54, Finbarr Quinn for O’Neill 56, Caol\u00e1n McKee for O’Connor 58.<\/p>\n
Referee: S\u00e9amus Mulhare (Laois).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bElectric Ireland All-Ireland minor football championship final Cork 2-16 Tyrone 1-16 By Paul Keane at Cedral St Conleth’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-534378","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\/534378","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=534378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}