{"id":630647,"date":"2026-09-20T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630647\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:14:12","slug":"premier-shc-patrick-horgan-on-form-as-glen-rovers-overcome-charleville-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630647\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier SHC: Patrick Horgan on form as Glen Rovers overcome Charleville to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glen Rovers 2-22\n <\/p>\n

\n Charleville 1-20\n <\/p>\n

Another trip out around the county proved fruitful for Glen Rovers as they secured a place in the Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC semi-finals for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n

Having opened their campaign with defeat to Blackrock in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn, the Glen had beaten Kanturk in Castletownroche and Fr O\u2019Neill\u2019s in Carrigtwohill \u2013 Charleville in Mallow can be added to that list as a return to the city, and a last-four clash with Midleton, was achieved.<\/p>\n

It was a victory that looked likely once they struck for a pair of first-half goals, from Simon Kennefick and Patrick Horgan and reeled off eight unanswered points in a 12-minute period straddling half-time to lead by 2-14 to 0-11.<\/p>\n

Charleville did respond, aided by the introduction of Darragh Fitzgibbon, who had been unable to start due to a quad-muscle injury. He was to finish with five points and it was his surging run that led to Conor Buckley\u2019s 62nd-minute goal to briefly give them hope at 2-20 to 1-20.<\/p>\n

Jack Buckley did win the resultant puckout for Charleville but they couldn\u2019t hold possession and Glen sub Mark Dooley\u2019s fine pass allowed Horgan to fire over a point to bring his tally to 1-12 before half-time addition Dean Brosnan capped an influential display with a long-ranger.<\/p>\n

\" Simon Kennefick of Glen Rovers tries to get away from Charleville’s Jack Meade. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

There was a late goal effort for Charleville midfielder Jack Callaghan, who was one of their brightest performers, but Cathal Hickey pulled off his third important save and the Glen\u2019s victory was confirmed.<\/p>\n

While they were favourites, especially given Fitzgibbon\u2019s expected absence, they had to endure a strong Charleville start, with David Forde, Se\u00e1n Bresnan and Tim Hawe impressive as Charleville moved into an 0-8 to 0-4 lead by the 13th minute, but it was soon eradicated.<\/p>\n

The first goal came as Kennefick claimed a Miche\u00e1l Mullins sideline cut and got away a shot that bounced off the crossbar and down behind the line, before Horgan had them level from a free.<\/p>\n

Eoin O\u2019Leary, who along with Kennefick was a lively presence and always available in the inside line, might have raised a green flag but Conor McCarthy\u2019s pass was just over his head; however, they didn\u2019t have too long to wait as Luke Horgan\u2019s delivery was marvellously taken down by Horgan to give himself space before a smart finish.<\/p>\n

Charleville almost replied in kind but Hickey did brilliantly to deny Cathal O\u2019Carroll and with some bad wides registered by the north Cork men, the Glen showed efficiency as the half approached, with Lee Quilligan and O\u2019Leary on target as they retired with a 2-10 to 0-11 advantage.<\/p>\n

\" Eoin Downey of Glen Rovers tries to block a shot by Se\u00e1n Bresnan of Charleville. Picture:\u00a0Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

The pattern continued on the restart \u2013 after another Charleville wide, Brosnan\u2019s first act was to catch Hickey\u2019s puckout feed Horgan for his seventh point and Brosnan got on the scoresheet himself while at the other end Robert and Eoin Downey made important interventions to stymie Haw and Bresnan respectively.<\/p>\n

Fitzgibbon\u2019s arrival gave Charleville a lift and he pointed with his first touch as they went on to enjoy a fruitful period \u2013 his third, on 44 minutes, had it back to the half-time margin of five but the Glen responded once more.<\/p>\n

Again, an experienced sub made an impact \u2013 Brian Moylan on this occasion \u2013 while Horgan was flawless from dead balls and corner-back Liam Coughlan carried out his primary duties as well as showcasing some excellent distribution.<\/p>\n

In the closing minutes, Forde went close for Charleville, having a shot tipped over the crossbar by Hickey before Robert Carroll and a huge Fitzgibbon free left it 2-19 to 0-20.<\/p>\n

After a Kennefick point, the gap was halved with Buckley\u2019s goal but the Glen were not going to be denied.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Glen Rovers: P Horgan 1-12 (0-8f), S Kennefick 1-2, E O\u2019Leary, L Quilligan, D Brosnan, B Moylan 0-2 each.<\/p>\n

\n Charleville: D Forde 0-6 (0-4f, 0-1 65), D Fitzgibbon 0-5 (0-3f), C Buckley 1-1, Z Biggane, S Bresnan, T Hawe 0-2 each, R Carroll J Callaghan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n GLEN ROVERS: C Hickey; A Lynch, R Downey, E Varian; L Horgan, E Downey, L Coughlan; C McCarthy, D Noonan; R Dunne, M Mullins, L Quilligan; S Kennefick, P Horgan, E O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: D Brosnan for Noonan (half-time), B Moylan for McCarthy (46), C Leahy for O\u2019Leary (59), M Dooley for Quillligan (60).<\/p>\n

\n CHARLEVILLE: C Reynolds; D Butler, F Cagney, J Meade; D Casey, J Buckley, A Dennehy; J Callaghan, C O\u2019Carroll; G Gleeson, S Bresnan, Z Biggane; C Buckley, D Forde, T Hawe.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: D Fitzgibbon for Gleeson (36), O O\u2019Connell for Hawe (43), J Madigan for Butler (53), R Carroll for Biggane (54), G Kelleher for Bresnan (58).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: P O\u2019Mahony (Kilbrittain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Rovers 2-22 Charleville 1-20 Another trip out around the county proved fruitful for Glen Rovers as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-630647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630647","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=630647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}