{"id":551844,"date":"2026-07-16T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:55:17","slug":"premier-1-mfc-clonakilty-off-to-fine-start-with-win-over-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551844\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier 1 MFC: Clonakilty off to fine start with win over Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Clonakilty 1-14 (1-0-14)\n <\/p>\n

\n Douglas 0-8 (0-1-6)\n <\/p>\n

Clonakilty impressed on their return to the Premier 1 grade as they opened with a Cork ETB U18FC win at home to Douglas on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Winners of the U16 Premier 2 title two years ago, the hosts had moved 0-3 to 0-2 in the early stages when Matthew Lyons gave them a cushion and they retained the lead thereafter. While Douglas did come back to within a point in the aftermath of the goal, by half-time Clon were 1-8 to 0-6 to the good and scored the first three points of the second half to solidify their supremacy.<\/p>\n

Cork minor star Tom Whooley caught the eye with five points from play for the home side but it was very much a collective effort: Daniel Donovan\u2019s four points included two 45s that were stroked over while Jack Byerley impressed with a trio of points and fine build-up play.<\/p>\n

At midfield, Ewan Knowles was excellent but even his injury-enforced departure didn\u2019t knock Clon out of their stride, with \u00c9anna D\u00e9iseach coming to the fore in the closing stages.<\/p>\n

\"Douglas'sDouglas’s Tom\u00e1s Reddington slips past Shay O’Donovan of Clonakilty. Picture: Martin Walsh<\/p>\n

In defence, captain Ben Coffey led impressively from centre-back while Clon needed James Costello and Eoghan Minihan to make important contributions, especially in the opening part of the game, when Douglas enjoyed a good share of possession but were unable to translate that into scores.<\/p>\n

Clon had threatened a goal early as Byerley was denied by a Ryan Hourihane save but when D\u00e9iseach won a good ball in the air and fed Whooley, his strong run allowed for a lay-off to Lyons, who finished well.<\/p>\n

Frees from Ben Herlihy and Thomas Murray (two-pointer) gave Douglas a response and Adam Kelly had a great run that almost ended in a goal but he shot narrowly wide.<\/p>\n

\"Clon'sClon’s Ewan Knowles gets his shot away despite the efforts of Tom\u00e1s Reddington. Picture: Martin Walsh<\/p>\n

Wing-back Fionn O\u2019Donovan ensured that Clon stayed on top and further scores from Whooley and Donovan meant that they retired with a six-point advantage, though they did need Dylan Falvey to keep out James Naughton’s shot after a lovely Douglas move coming up to the half-time break.<\/p>\n

Donovan’s run allowed Whooley to get his third point on the restart, followed by Byerley’s third, and then Coffey’s delivery led to another for Whooley as the lead became eight points.<\/p>\n

With Diarmuid O’Donoghue to the fore as he moved forward from centre-back, Douglas did battle hard to regain a foothold but they found Falvey in good form – the goalkeeper saved from O’Donoghue and then Darragh O’Connor in quick succession. Then, after Whooley’s fifth made it 1-13 to 0-8, Douglas fashioned another chance as Kelly and Murray combined to set up Tom\u00e1s Reddington but his crashing effort came back off the angle of post and crossbar.<\/p>\n

Lyons had the final say as Clon finished well – they will travel to face Na Piarsaigh next as Douglas look to regroup against Glanmire.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Clonakilty: T Whooley 0-5, D Donovan 0-4 (0-2 45), M Lyons 1-1, J Byerley 0-3, \u00c9 D\u00e9iseach 0-1.<\/p>\n

\n Douglas: T Murray 0-4 (1 2ptf, 0-1 f), B Herlihy (0-1 f), T Reddington, A Kelly, D O\u2019Donoghue 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n CLONAKILTY: D Falvey; L Kelleher, J Costello, E Minihane; S O\u2019Donovan, B Coffey, F O\u2019Donovan; \u00c9 D\u00e9iseach, E Knowles; MF Collins, D Donovan, C O\u2019Gorman; J Byerley, T Whooley, M Lyons. <\/p>\n

\n Subs: F O\u2019Mahony for O\u2019Gorman (48), B Bennett for Knowles (50, injured), L Rohan for O\u2019Donovan (58), D Duggan for MF Collins (60+1).<\/p>\n

\n DOUGLAS: R Hourihane; C McLoughlin, E Cronin, I Butler; C McAuliffe, D O\u2019Donoghue, J Gordon; J Naughton, C Hallahan; D O\u2019Connor, A Kelly, T Reddington; B Herlihy, C Fitzgerald, T Murray. <\/p>\n

\n Subs: L O\u2019Brien for Gordon, C Crowley for Fitzgerald (both 37), D O\u2019Donovan for Hallahan, S Lenihan for Cronin (both 48).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: J Kingston (Carbery Rangers). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clonakilty 1-14 (1-0-14) Douglas 0-8 (0-1-6) Clonakilty impressed on their return to the Premier 1 grade as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-551844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551844","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=551844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}