NEVER-SAY-DIE Cork are All-Ireland minor football champions for the first time in seven years after a superb comeback to beat Tyrone 2-16 to 1-16 in a thrilling final in Newbridge.<\/p>\n
The young Rebels trailed 1-13 to 0-7 after 39 minutes, but it\u2019s then we saw Keith Ricken\u2019s men rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n
Cork outscored Tyrone by 2-9 to 0-3 from this point on, with goals from Alex O’Herlihy and Eoghan Aherne key in a terrific win.<\/p>\n
Aherne\u2019s stunning solo goal in the 60th minute pushed Cork ahead and set up a famous win.<\/p>\n
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Don\u2019t miss Thursday\u2019s Southern Star for extensive coverage of Cork\u2019s All-Ireland win!<\/p>\n
Scorers –\u00a0Cork: Eoghan Aherne 1-5 (3f); Joe Miskella 0-5 (2 tp); Alex O’Herlihy 1-1; Tom Whooley 0-2; Conrad Murphy, Ben Hegarty (1f), Jacob Barry 0-1 each. Tyrone: Vincent Gormley 0-6 (1 tp); Aodhan Corry 1-0 (1-0 pen); Conan Canavan 0-3 (1 tpf, 1f); Brian \u00d3g McGuckin 0-3 (1f); Matthew F Daly 0-3; Tom\u00e1s Gallen 0-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEVER-SAY-DIE Cork are All-Ireland minor football champions for the first time in seven years after a superb comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-535118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535118","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=535118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}