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A scrappy moment between the Glen and Inagh Kilnamona at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\nWhile Glen Rovers can mark 2026 as a major success, the way Inagh-Kilnamona dictated their Munster quarter-final will irritate the Blackpool men.<\/p>\n
Compared to the visitors\u2019 frantic pace, helped by an extra week\u2019s rest, the Glen weren\u2019t at the races from the off.<\/p>\n
Conner Hegarty, fit again after missing the Clare final through injury, showed his hunger for the fight with an instant hook on Robert Downey. They cashed that in for an Aidan McCarthy point. In the very first play, their danger man was up and running.<\/p>\n
Se\u00e1n Rynne\u2019s exit for his bloodied forehead to be patched up only served to symbolise their full-blooded approach.<\/p>\n
In the second play, Inagh\u2019s pressure earned a second block, with Darren Cullinan all over a Dean Brosnan pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That would still result in the Glen\u2019s only shot of the opening 12 minutes as Patrick Horgan exchanged a sideline one-two with Michael Tadhg Brosnan.<\/p>\n
Sideline cuts seemed the Glen\u2019s best bet in that spell. Brosnan was again the link man as Luke Horgan worked one short, but a budding goal chance was snuffed out by James Hegarty. Their number six later smothered a potential Eoin Downey opening.<\/p>\n
\n The first-time Clare champions set up with a deep-lying defensive shield, which the Glen couldn\u2019t penetrate.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Patrick Horgan effectively lined out at centre-forward, but Keith White gave him no space. Conor Rynne did the job when Horgan moved closer to goal in the second half. In either scenario, the Glen couldn\u2019t work the ball into Hoggie\u2019s grasp.<\/p>\n
In the first half especially, that was down to Hegarty patrolling the centre. In those formative stages, he mopped up the break for McCarthy\u2019s second point, batted the puck-out to a teammate for McCarthy\u2019s fourth, was all alone to collect for McCarthy\u2019s seventh shot, a wide, and would\u2019ve been credited with another interception only for a late clip on Luke Horgan, which resulted in the Glen\u2019s second point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TG4 put the half-time turnover count at 14-5.<\/p>\n
A scrappy moment between the Glen and Inagh Kilnamona at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\n
While McCarthy has been doing his utmost to earn a Clare recall, Hegarty must be high on Brian Lohan\u2019s radar for a centre-back position which proved a headache this year.<\/p>\n
As for McCarthy, he dispatched seven shots in just 11 minutes. It didn\u2019t help the Glen\u2019s cause that his seventh point, in the 23rd minute, was a gift from a sideline cut. Positioned on the left wing for long stretches, he then won the puck-out for David Fitzgerald\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
Across the hour, the 2024 All-Ireland winner had 17 attempts, converting 14. He got 11 of those attempts from frees, plus one 65, converting 10.<\/p>\n
While Inagh-Kilnamona were tackling with greater intensity, the Glen gave up the first four fouls and had their first of two pointed frees marched forward for dissent as they got on the wrong side of a fussy Alan Tierney performance.<\/p>\n
The Glen\u2019s daring puck-out strategy came under extra heat as Fred Hegarty picked off one short restart for a point. When Conor McCarthy did win a puck-out break in opposition territory, he was swarmed, left short of options, and the pass didn\u2019t go to hand.<\/p>\n
Later, Mark Callinan came from 10 yards behind McCarthy to pull off a hook. Later again, the all-action midfielder blocked Dean Brosnan.<\/p>\n
Robert Downey was blocked down again by David Mescall, but the Cork centre-back recovered well to charge down Kealan Guyler\u2019s attempt.<\/p>\n
\n Downey was detailed to track Fitzgerald, while younger brother Eoin initially tagged Aidan McCarthy. Their positioning made it difficult to cover the centre.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
With the game turning against the hosts, Eoin shifted to the number six role and Robert later moved towards the middle as Eoin shoved further forward. Those tweaks harvested Glen momentum in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until then that the Glen put back-to-back scores together. Within 30 seconds of each first-half point, Inagh-Kilnamona had either responded in kind or won a free which would be pointed. The exception was their fifth and final point. After a brief delay, the next score was Fitzgerald\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
Patrick Horgan\u2019s 1-4 from frees either side of half-time, plus a sharp assist for Lee Quilligan, gave the Glen hope. One of those scores came from a Rhys Dunne block. Another originated from forward pressure to force the turnover.<\/p>\n
Half-time substitute Zach Lynch could\u2019ve made it a one-score game, but \u00c9amonn Foudy was equal to his drive.<\/p>\n
Miche\u00e1l Mullins\u2019 injury undoubtedly damaged the Glen\u2019s chances. Where he came good in the semi-final with two goals, just like Eoin O\u2019Leary did in the final, the Glen never got any forward traction. Quilligan was the only player to register two scores from play before his early withdrawal.<\/p>\n
All the while, Inagh-Kilnamona didn\u2019t drop their standards. When the Glen got it back to four points, the visitors came strong with the next three. The second half ended 0-7 apiece.<\/p>\n
The wide count of 10-4 weighted towards Inagh underlined the dominant nature of their display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Glen Rovers can mark 2026 as a major success, the way Inagh-Kilnamona dictated their Munster quarter-final will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1965,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-673432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/673432","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=673432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}