After losing last year\u2019s final, Ballincollig refused to give up, culminating in them reaching the summit of the Cork Premier IHC in P\u00e1irc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday.<\/p>\n
There were scenes of great joy when excellent captain and full-back James Dwyer raised the S\u00e9amus Long Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe met a couple of weeks after losing the county final and it was tough,\u201d manager Eamonn Keating said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had no qualms the better team did win. We made a pact among ourselves that we would drive on and that we\u2019d come back here. We felt we had unfinished business.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, at the start of the year when we met, I just asked the lads for an extra one or two percent and they\u2019ve given it in every game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the experience stood to us. It\u2019s all the small things, and they add up. We were quite relaxed coming in. Our bus actually got delayed, we got caught in traffic coming down Monahan Road, but that was fine. There was no panic.<\/p>\n
\u201cRonan (Curran) spoke to the lads before we disembarked from the bus, just final instructions really. We were happy with our preparations. Just delighted we got the performance, especially the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n
They trailed 0-10 to 0-9 at the break, before taking control.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no panic at half time, we were rushing things a small bit – if that makes sense – just overcooking passes and maybe hanging onto the ball that bit too long. I think the lads just went out in the second half and expressed themselves and that was the most pleasing thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll we asked was to up it a small bit. We weren\u2019t doing too much wrong. Just to be honest, and to come out and put everything on the line for the 30\/35 minutes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ace attacker Brian Keating – son of the manager – was used as a late-game cameo due to injury, similar to the semi-final. He gave the team an instant lift.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrian came on and was instrumental in creating a goal chance, which Adam (Wills) took, and once we got the goal there was no doubt. It was just a question of pushing on and making sure that the job got finished.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means everything to be up senior. We are senior football. To be looking forward to 2027 and play senior hurling, it\u2019s fantastic. Our underage is going well, our U15s won the F\u00e9ile hurling for the first time in our club history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing last year\u2019s final, Ballincollig refused to give up, culminating in them reaching the summit of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[255019,2110,15389,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-659108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-club-championships","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-county-championship","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659108","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=659108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}