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Tadhg de Burca produced a masterclass as Waterford secured its first championship win since defeating Cork in the 2017 Ireland semi-final after Liam Cahill’s men toppled the Rebels in the Munster semi-final at Semple Stadium.
It was a well-deserved victory for Cahill in their first championship match, as they relied on a three-point lead at interval for a huge victory.
Waterford won the toss and opted to play with the breeze, duly leading 0-15 to 0-12 at the end of a fluid first half. In fact, they would have been further ahead if they hadn’t shot 14 panoramas, compared to nine for Cork.
Both sides were guilty of stray shots after a choppy opening that saw the Rebels rush to a 0-04-0-2 lead after just four minutes.
Cork continued that brilliant start to lead 0-05 to 0-04 after nine minutes, but was unable to score for the next 12 minutes as Waterford took control and scored the 0-05 with no response with Stephen Bennett in shooting duties. free after Pauric. Mahony was ruled out for the season with injury, recovering from a pair of misses to shoot six in the interval.
Dessie Hutchinson capped her championship debut with a pair of excellent points from the right in the first half with Austin Gleeson, Jamie Barron and Jake Dillon also featured during a good span for Waterford.
But the Rebels stayed in touch with Patrick Horgan shooting two from the game plus a pair of free hits, while Shane Kingston scored three good points and Conor Lehane contributed a double as they closed the gap to a goal at halftime.
Calum Lyons and Gleeson traded points with Bill Cooper and Horgan before the magnificent Lyons passed solo from the right and finished near the net with a drop shot.
Waterford quickly followed the goal with points from Jack Prendergast and Bennett to lead 1-19 to 0-14 after 40 minutes.
But Cork came back with three unanswered points, two from Seamus Harnedy and one from Christopher Joyce to cut the margin to five in the 44th minute.
The teams continued to trade points and there were still five between them at the second water break, with Waterford taking a 1-22-0-20 lead in the fourth quarter.
Cork struggled to push his way into the gap as Waterford continued to respond to his points and Hutchinson extended the lead to six with his third point before another free Bennett from the distance left Cahill’s men leading 1-27-0- 23 with three minutes of regular time. remaining.
Horgan gave Cork hope with a free kick in injury time, but Patrick Curran fired a safe point for Waterford after coming in as a substitute to seal Munster’s first final date since 2016.
Waterford: Stephen O’Keeffe; Shane Fives, Conor Prunty, Shane McNulty (0-01); Calum Lyons (1-02), Tadhg De Burca, Kevin Moran (0-01); Jamie Barron (0-03), Kieran Bennett (0-01); Jack Prendergast (0-01), Austin Gleeson (0-03), Jack Fagan; Dessie Hutchinson (0-03), Stephen Bennett (0-12, 1f), Jake Dillon.
Subs used: Billy Power for K Bennett (55), Neil Montgomery for Fagan (61), Darragh Lyons for Dillon (63), Patrick Curran (0-01) for Gleeson (69).
Cork: Anthony Nash; Sean O’Leary-Hayes, Damien Cahalane, Sean O’Donoghue; Christopher Joyce (0-01), Robert Downey, Tim O’Mahony; Bill Cooper (0-02), Mark Coleman (0-02, 0-01 from the side); Conor Lehane (0-02), Shane Kingston (0-04), Daire Connery; Patrick Horgan (1-08, 1-03), Seamus Harnedy (0-03), Alan Cadogan (0-01).
Subs used: Jack O’Connor for Connery (41), Declan Dalton (0-01) for Lehane (54), Luke Meade for Cadogan (57), Billy Hennessy for Joyce (63), Brian Turnbull for Harnedy (71).
Referee: Sean Stack (Dublin).
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