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Cork has ended an eight-year wait for a Championship win over Kerry with Mark Keane’s last goal at Páirc Uí Chaoimh tonight. In doing so, they have eliminated their neighbors from the competition and will face Tipperary in a Munster final at this very venue on Sunday of the week.
In incredibly dramatic circumstances, Luke Connolly’s blow and hope were met by the Mitchelstown AFL player, who was drafted late on the panel, and he kicked Shane Ryan.
Kerry, who never outscored Cork by more than two points and led 0-12 to 0-11 at the overtime break, had his lead reduced to one when Connolly kicked over a splendid long distance free line in the seventh minute of the match. the second half of the extension.
However, a risky one-point attempt by David Moran was picked up by Cork and they slowly but surely made their way onto the field for a score that resembled Tadhg Murphy’s famous goal 37 years ago.
Kerry had also led in overtime than normal. Forced to foul by Gavin White, Seán Powter won a free kick that Mark Collins converted to force extra time. With three touchdowns on the rebound, two of them by Seán O’Shea including a massive free kick in the 63rd minute, Kerry had gone two up in the 67th minute.
When many around him were reeling, Killian Spillane was a lifesaver for Kerry and kicked two points after he came in in the 50th minute. However, Kerry’s play was laborious and they were not helped by Ronan Buckley’s deserved black cards. and Moran at minutes 52 and 69 respectively.
Conditions were not good, but they could not excuse some of the bad football played. Until the 19th minute, only three points had been scored. By the 11th minute, both Tony Brosnan and O’Shea had missed with three scoring opportunities.
Despite his good run through the medium, particularly by Brian Ó Beaglaoich, Kerry’s final product was very poor. The two-point advantage they improvised in the 27th minute was the greater amount of natural light they put between themselves and Cork.
Too often, Kerry’s players were entertaining themselves with the ball and were unaware of the supporting runners around them.
Cork, meanwhile, waited for the right moment as if they were conserving energy. The likes of Ruairí Deane may have been onlookers for most of the half, but Ian Maguire and Killian O’Hanlon dominated the period after the first water break.
Their purple patch in the final 10 minutes of the half gave them a one point lead at the changeover, 0-6 to 0-5. Ball points placed by Collins and Killian O’Hanlon were followed by a score by Kevin O’Donovan.
M Collins (0-4, 3 free); L Connolly (0-3, 2 free); M Keane (1-0); K O’Hanlon (0-2, 1 45, 1 free); B Hurley (brand), S Powter, K O’Donovan (0-1 each).
D Clifford (1 free), K Spillane (0-4 each): S O’Shea (0-2, 1 free); R Buckley, D Moynihan, T Brosnan (0-1 each).
M Martin; K O’Donovan, M Shanley, K Flahive; S Meehan, S Powter, M Taylor; I Maguire (c), P Walsh; J O’Rourke, K. O’Hanlon, R. Deane; M Collins, C O’Callaghan, B Hurley.
M Keane by C O’Callaghan (44); L Connolly by J O’Rourke (45); M Hurley by P Walsh (54); P Kerrigan by B Hurley (62); S White for K O’Donovan (70); P ring for K Flahive (et); T Crowley for S Powter (74); K O’Driscoll by K Maguire (77); D Gore for K O’Hanlon (et ht).
S Ryan; T Morley, J Foley, T O’Sullivan; P Murphy, P Crowley, G White; D Moran, D O’Connor; B Ó Beaglaoich, S O’Shea, R Buckley; T Brosnan, D Clifford (c), D Moynihan.
S O’Brien by D Moynihan (47); K Spillane for T Brosnan (50); J Barry by B Ó Beaglaoich (55); J Sherwood by R Buckley (63); G Crowley for G White (et); B Ó Beaglaoich for T O’Sullivan (et ht); T Walsh for J Foley (85); P Clifford by D O’Connor (89).
R Buckley (52), D Moran (69).
D O’Mahoney (Tipperary).
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