{"id":116142,"date":"2025-10-11T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:30:12","slug":"st-nicks-are-county-final-bound-after-zack-lynch-caps-off-super-comeback-against-cobh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116142\/","title":{"rendered":"St Nick’s are county final bound after Zack Lynch caps off super comeback against Cobh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n St Nick’s 0-14 (0-3-8) Cobh 0-12 (0-2-8)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

St Nick’s are through to the final of the Co-Op Superstores PJFC following a stunning comeback against Cobh at Carrigtwohill on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Substitute Zack Lynch was the hero for the Seand\u00fan outfit with a stunning two-pointer deep into injury time. They’ll now meet a fancied Buttevant in the final but the underdog tag hasn’t bothered them all year.<\/p>\n

Behind at the interval, St Nick’s found themselves four points down at the halfway stage in the second half, before they turned it all around.<\/p>\n

First Cobh missed a free from 13 metres out. At the opposite end, another second-half sub Jamie Corkery made no mistake in converting his free from outside the arc. 0-12 to 0-10 to Cobh but with eight minutes left and the momentum now with Nick’s.<\/p>\n

It was level by the 56th minute. Nick’s then went in front for the first time when a long ball found its way to Lynch. With the right boot from distance, his shot went straight between the posts and up went the orange flag.<\/p>\n

Cobh did have one final chance to nick it at the death but Ross Cronin was on hand to deny Adam Hastings at his near post.<\/p>\n

\" St Nick’s Ciaran Horgan is sent flying after a strong challenge by Cobh’s George Keating during their Premier JFC semi-final clash at Carrigtwohill. Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n

Cobh will be wondering how they let this one slip. Diarmuid Kearney, one of the shining lights, was cool, calm and composed to land a brilliant two-pointer 0-6 to 0-1 after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Their bright start was put to a temporary halt when Eoin O’Leary got Nick’s up and running.<\/p>\n

They wouldn’t score again for another 11 minutes. But when they did, there was only four between the sides, 0-6 to 0-2.<\/p>\n

The margin was down to two when Cork hurling star Eoin Downey and Donagh Coughlan raised white 0-6 to 0-4 to Cobh at the break.<\/p>\n

\" Cobh’s Ben Geary tries to get past St Nick’s Danny Morris during their Premier JFC semi-final clash at Carrigtwohill.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n

The early stages of the second half saw both sides trade scores before Mark O’Rourke scored Cobh’s second two-pointer. They stretched the lead out to six when Heelan and Timmy Wilk raised white.<\/p>\n

But Nick’s refused to lie down. They hit back with a two-pointer through Dean Brosnan and then Jack O’Sullivan made it a one-score game 0-11 to 0-8.<\/p>\n

Sean Cummins’ reply pushed Cobh four ahead.<\/p>\n

They wouldn’t score again as Nick’s came roaring back. No stopping the Saints.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for St Nick’s: J O’Sullivan 0-3 f, D Brosnan 0-3 (1 2pt), J Corkery, Z Lynch (1 2pt) 0-2 each, E O’Leary, E Downey, D Coughlan, S Cummins 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Cobh: D Kearney 0-3 (1 2pt), D Heelan (0-1 45), J Ronan, M O’Rourke (1 2pt) 0-2 each, D Burke, T Wilk, S Cummins 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n ST NICK’S: R Cronin; D Dunlea, S Horgan, C Horgan; F O’Driscoll, R Downey, D Wall; E Varian, D Coughlan; G Marshall, J Brosnan, E Downey; J O’Sullivan, E O’Leary, D Morris.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: D Brosnan for Marshall (h-t), L Quilligan for Coughlan (45), J Corkery for Morris (45), C McCarthy for O’Leary (49), Z Lynch for Brosnan (49).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n COBH: Ed Walsh; A Stanton, B Geary, A McCarthy; T Wilk, S Cummins, M O’Rourke; C McLoughlin, G Keating; D Burke, D Heelan, D Kearney; A Lynch, J Ronan, E Hastings.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: E Cullimore for Hastings (56), A Hastings for Keating (56), A Doran for Lynch (61).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: Pat O’Leary (Kilmurry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Nick’s 0-14 (0-3-8) Cobh 0-12 (0-2-8)\u00a0 St Nick’s are through to the final of the Co-Op Superstores…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-116142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}