\n Glen Rovers 1-24\u00a0
\n Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s 3-12\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
For much of this contest, it was as comfortable as it could possibly have been for Glen Rovers. Then, a burst of 2-3 from Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s in the final nine minutes plus stoppage saw the Glen\u2019s lead drop from 12 to six.<\/p>\n
Those six points did little to save Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s from the relegation playoff. But they very nearly left Glen Rovers heartbroken.<\/p>\n
News that Kanturk were comfortably ahead of Blackrock had already filtered through. But was the Glen\u2019s scoring difference of +6 going to be enough?<\/p>\n
The northsiders congregated around the middle of the pitch in Carrig, anxiously awaiting news from Mourneabbey.<\/p>\n
After a lengthy delay, relief would come. Kanturk top the group, but the Glen slip through in second. Blackrock are out. Now, Glen Rovers meet Charleville in the quarter-final, while O\u2019Neill\u2019s put their Premier Senior status on the line with Douglas in a fortnight.<\/p>\n
The Glen\u2019s first-half showing was integral here. They took the lead for the second time in the third minute and were never caught again. Six different scorers from play and a Patrick Horgan free had them 0-7 to 0-2 clear after 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill\u2019s would not score from play from the seventh minute until right before Wayne King\u2019s short whistle. Billy Dunne made a stunning catch, turned and released a shot across goal to ripple the net. By that stage, though, they were well behind, 1-14 to 1-4.<\/p>\n
The Glen tore through their opponents for the entire second quarter. Horgan and Eoin O\u2019Leary were unmarkable any time they gathered possession, while Miche\u00e1l Mullins ran the show at centre-forward.<\/p>\n
Robert Downey harried and harassed Deccie Dalton all the way through, while brother Eoin was immense as a sweeper.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill\u2019s had tried to use Kevin O\u2019Sullivan in the quarter-back role, but they were constantly turned over any time they ventured into the attacking third. Seven scores in a row \u2013 including a well-taken goal from O\u2019Leary \u2013 had the Glen 1-13 to 0-3 up after 26 minutes.<\/p>\n
Ger Millerick and Simon Kennefick went to the air to fight for possession, and O\u2019Leary read the break well before firing beyond Paudie O\u2019Sullivan. Eoin Downey assisted Mullins for the next point, while Rob Downey thundered forward with pace before slotting over to take the Glen\u2019s first-half account to 1-14.<\/p>\n
Dunne\u2019s goal right before the break gave O\u2019Neill\u2019s a sliver of hope, but the Glen kept their opponents at arm\u2019s length for much of the third quarter. Only in the final 15 minutes did O\u2019Neill\u2019s begin to eat into the deficit.<\/p>\n
A top-spin strike from a Dalton free in the 51st minute sent it dipping towards goal at a ferocious speed, and Jason Hankard was there to get a touch to the net, 1-21 to 2-9.<\/p>\n
The Glen answered with two points. The latter of was a brilliant catch and strike from Eoin Downey \u2013 who had swapped with Mullins to play centre-forward \u2013 after Cathal Hickey\u2019s booming delivery. Dan Harrington assisted Peter Hassett for a better point back, but Hickey\u2019s next puckout was again superbly plucked, this time by the evergreen Horgan.<\/p>\n
He split the posts, but O\u2019Neill\u2019s responded with their third green flag in the 59th minute. Hankard struck one low and powerfully, and O\u2019Neill\u2019s tacked on two late scores to leave the final margin at six.<\/p>\n
It left Rovers frantically searching for any updates on the Kanturk-Blackrock contest. When the news came through, they were finally free to celebrate.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Glen Rovers: P Horgan 0-10 (0-7 f), E O\u2019Leary 1-2, M Mullins 0-4, E Downey, L Quilligan 0-2 each, R Downey, R Dunne, D Noonan, C McCarthy 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s: J Hankard 2-0, D Dalton 0-6 (0-5 f), B Dunne 1-1, M O\u2019Keeffe 0-2, P Hassett, John Millerick, C O\u2019Leary 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n GLEN ROVERS: C Hickey; A Lynch, E Varian; E Downey; L Horgan, R Downey, L Coughlan; C McCarthy, D Noonan; R Dunne, M Mullins, L Quilligan; P Horgan, S Kennefick, E O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: B Moylan for A Lynch (43), S Lynam for O\u2019Leary (48 inj), Z Lynch for Noonan (58), M Dooley for Kennefick (60).<\/p>\n
\n FR O\u2019NEILL\u2019S: P O\u2019Sullivan; D Harrington, G Millerick, M Millerick; K O\u2019Sullivan; P Hassett, E Motherway, J Barry; Joe Millerick, John Millerick; M Wall, D Dalton, M O\u2019Keeffe; J Hankard, B Dunne.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C O\u2019Leary for Joe Millerick (50), R Kenneally for Barry (53), T O\u2019Donoghue-Brosnan for O\u2019Sullivan (58).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: W King (Banteer\/Lyre)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Rovers 1-24\u00a0 Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s 3-12\u00a0 For much of this contest, it was as comfortable as it could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15389,1965,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-616967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-county-championship","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616967","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=616967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}