{"id":584705,"date":"2026-08-06T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584705\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:16:11","slug":"premier-shc-early-goals-put-imokilly-in-control-against-ucc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584705\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier SHC: Early goals put Imokilly in control against UCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imokilly 4-26<\/p>\n

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UCC 0-19<\/p>\n

While a good deal of the personnel may have changed, Imokilly showed they remain the hurling standard-bears among the colleges and divisions of Cork with a 19-point win over UCC in Midleton on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Featuring just five of the same starters from the team that had lost to St Finbarr\u2019s in last year\u2019s Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC \u2013 a number of players have retired, while others, like S\u00e9amus Harnedy, were unavailable \u2013 the east Cork divisional side were against the stiff breeze in the first half but were more clinical in front of goal.<\/p>\n

A 2-11 to 0-12 half-time lead \u2013 green flags from Dungourney duo Cillian O\u2019Callaghan and Jack Leahy, exorcising some of the ghosts of the defeat to Cloyne at the same venue on Sunday evening \u2013 gave them a platform on which they built in the second period.<\/p>\n

\"Imokilly'sImokilly’s Conor Cahill tackles UCC’s James Dwyer during their Divisions\/Colleges Premier SHC clash at Midleton.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n

Some excellent long-range shooting from the side now under the charge of Ronan Dwane and Se\u00e1nie O\u2019Farrell saw them add six unanswered points on the resumption and O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s second goal extinguished any doubts about the outcome. They will now await the winners of Sunday\u2019s clash between Muskerry and Seand\u00fan before playing off for a place in the championship proper.<\/p>\n

They will benefit from the opportunity to integrate further, but the raw materials are strong. Leahy\u2019s goal, set up by his clubmate, put them in a 1-1 to 0-2 lead in the sixth minute and while points fom Fionn Desmond and Liam O\u2019Riordan (two) did help UCC back to parity in the wake of that, Imokilly led thereafter.<\/p>\n

They had a second goal on 17 minutes as O\u2019Callaghan latched on to a dropping ball before finishing well for a 2-5 to 0-7 lead. While Cork\u2019s Hugh O\u2019Connor led the UCC attacking charge and James Dywer had two good long-range points, they needed a goal in the first half and twice were unlucky. First, Imokilly goalkeeper Eoin Davis did well to intercept a Luke Murphy pass intended for O\u2019Connor and then Murphy himself had a shot saved by Davis coming up to the break.<\/p>\n

Such was the strength of the breeze, Davis actually sent a puckout wide early in the second half but it was a rare shot off-target \u2013 impressive wing-back Adam Sherlock slung over two from distance while James Murray and Mike Kelly combined well in midfield.<\/p>\n

\"UCC'sUCC’s Kevin Beechinor goes high to win possession ahead of Imokilly’s Sean O’Donoghue.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n

It was 2-16 to 0-12 when Jack Leahy did well to claim a delivery and eschewed an easy point \u2013 while UCC goalkeeper Fionn O\u2019Brien made a good save, O\u2019Callaghan was there to poke home the loose ball. Coming up to the three-quarter mark, O\u2019Callaghan repaid the favour \u2013 having shown good strength from Will Leahy\u2019s delivery, he laid off to Jack Leahy for a smart finish and a 4-19 to 0-13 advantage.<\/p>\n

From there, the only question was the size of the winning margin, though O\u2019Connor, who finished with nine, did his best to stem the deficit from the UCC point of view.<\/p>\n

Subs Mark McCarthy and Darragh O\u2019Brien had late points to bring the total number of scorers for Imokilly to 11.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Imokilly: J Leahy 2-7 (0-3f), C O\u2019Callaghan 2-1, M Kelly 0-4, A Sherlock, J Casey, W Leahy, D Healy, C Cahill 0-2 each, J Murray, M McCarthy, E Davis (0-1f), D O\u2019Brien 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n UCC: H O\u2019Connor 0-9 (0-4f), J Dwyer 0-3 (0-1 65), L O\u2019Riordan, P O\u2019Callaghan 0-2 each, F Desmond, L Murphy 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n IMOKILLY: E Davis (St Catherine\u2019s); F O\u2019Connell (St Catherine\u2019s), E O\u2019Riordan (St Catherine\u2019s), C Martin (Castlemartyr); A Sherlock (Cloyne), C O\u2019Brien (St Ita\u2019s), J Casey (Youghal); J Murray (Youghal), M Kelly (Castlemartyr); W Leahy (Aghada), D Healy (Lisgoold), C Cahill (Cloyne); S O\u2019Donoghue (St Catherine\u2019s), C O\u2019Callaghan (Dungourney), J Leahy (Dungourney).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: D O\u2019Brien (St Ita\u2019s) for Leahy (44), L Duggan Murray (Russell Rovers) for Cahill (46), A Lynch (Cobh) for O\u2019Donoghue (48), M McCarthy (Aghada) for Murray, M O\u2019Dwyer (Russell Rovers) for Leahy (both 52).<\/p>\n

\n UCC (Cork clubs unless stated): F O\u2019Brien (Bruree, Limerick); C Delaney (Ballyragget, Kilkenny), K Lyons (Ballygarvan), K Beechinor (\u00c9ire \u00d3g); J Dwyer (Ballincollig), E Guinane (Valley Rovers), S Kingston (Ballinora); M Woods (Valley Rovers), F Desmond (Ballymartle); L O\u2019Riordan (Ballyskenagh-Knockavilla, Offaly); H O\u2019Connor (Newmarket), P O\u2019Callaghan (Clonad, Laois); N O\u2019Shea (Windgap, Kilkenny), L Murphy (Barryroe), M Murphy (Kinsale).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: S Lawton (Dunnamaggin, Kilkenny) for O\u2019Shea (half-time), J Rafferty (Liscarrol-Churchtown Gaels) for M Murphy (48), N Flanagan (Killanena, Clare) for L Murphy, O O\u2019Connell (Nemo Rangers) for O\u2019Riordan (both 54).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: M Maher (St Finbarr\u2019s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imokilly 4-26 UCC 0-19 While a good deal of the personnel may have changed, Imokilly showed they remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-584705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584705","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=584705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}