![\"Adrigole's](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4817373_2_articleinlinemobile_0O9A5666.jpeg\" "\\"Adrigole's")
Adrigole’s Ger O’Shea takes on Ilen Rovers’ Peadar O’Driscoll.\u00a0Picture: Anne Marie Cronin Photography <\/p>\nIlen Rovers 0-24 (0-5-14) Adrigole 0-22 (0-3-16) (after extra time)\n <\/p>\n
Ilen Rovers won their first county semi-final in 17 years following an epic encounter with Adrigole to reach the 2025 McCarthy Insurance Group Intermediate AFC decider.<\/p>\n
An instant classic went down to the wire in both normal and extra time and will be remembered as one of the games of the year.<\/p>\n
It is fair to say that the winning West Cork side has been on a downward spiral in recent times.<\/p>\n
Having narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier SFC in 2020, the club that draws players from Aughadown, Rath and Baltimore suffered successive demotions to the fourth-tiered Intermediate A football championship.<\/p>\n
Now, a rejuvenated Rovers has a county final to look forward to.<\/p>\n
It was 0-19 to 0-15 in Adrigole\u2019s favour as the clock ticked past 60 minutes. Then, Dan MacEoin \u2013 who would finish with 12 points – converted a two-point free. Amazingly, the same player repeated the feat two minutes later to force extra time.<\/p>\n
Adrigole’s Ger O’Shea takes on Ilen Rovers’ Peadar O’Driscoll.\u00a0Picture: Anne Marie Cronin Photography <\/p>\n
Ilen were down a point early in the second period when a fisted Kevin O\u2019Driscoll score levelled matters, 0-22 each, once again. Roared on by their vociferous supporters, late Dermot Hegarty and Dan MacEoin points put the seal on a memorable victory.<\/p>\n
A crestfallen Adrigole exited the IAFC at the penultimate stage for the third consecutive year. The Beara club lost nothing in defeat but an inability to reach a county decider, especially after three superb group wins, will make for another long winter.<\/p>\n
Ilen led 0-11 to 0-9 at the end of an even opening half. There was still little to choose between the sides by the conclusion of the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Charlie O\u2019Sullivan and Ben O\u2019Sullivan scoring bursts had the Beara men 0-16 to 0-13 ahead with a quarter of an hour to go. Tom O\u2019Connor\u2019s converted free extended that advantage before a MacEoin free left a goal in it once again.<\/p>\n
![\"Feral](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4817376_2_articleinlinemobile_0O9A5829.jpeg\" "\\"Feral")
Feral Carey and Daniel Harrington tackle Ilen Rovers’ Alan Holland. Picture: Anne Marie Cronin Photography <\/p>\n
Micheal Sheehy and Ben O\u2019Sullivan swapped points before another Tom O\u2019Connor free on the stroke of full-time looked to have wrapped it up for Adrigole.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t to be as MacEoin\u2019s brace of two-point frees preceded an extra-time period in which the West Cork club deservedly edged the result.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Ilen Rovers: D MacEoin 0-12 (0-3 f, 2 2pt f, 1 2pt), M Sheehy 0-6 (2 2pts), D Hegarty 0-2, S Connolly, A O\u2019Driscoll, B Collins, K O\u2019Driscoll 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Adrigole: C O\u2019Sullivan 0-5 (0-1 f), B O\u2019Sullivan (1 2pt), C O’Shea (1 2pt) 0-4 each, T O\u2019Connor 0-3 f, D Collins (1 2pt f), D O\u2019Sullivan 0-2 each, L Harrington, D Harrington 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n ILEN ROVERS: D O\u2019Sullivan; D Coakley, J Collins, C O\u2019Dwyer; A O\u2019Sullivan, J Hickey, D O\u2019Driscoll; D Hegarty, P O\u2019Driscoll; B Collins (vc), S Connolly, A O\u2019Driscoll; D MacEoin, M Sheehy, S Minihane.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: A Holland for S Minihane (38), S Carey for D O\u2019Driscoll (43), K O\u2019Driscoll for A O\u2019Driscoll (49), E Hourihane for A O\u2019Sullivan (et), C O\u2019Driscoll for D Coakley (et, inj).<\/p>\n
\n ADRIGOLE: W O\u2019Sullivan (c); C O\u2019Shea, F Carey, D Collins; M Downing, S O\u2019Shea, C O\u2019Sullivan; N O\u2019Sullivan, C O\u2019Sullivan; G O\u2019Shea, B O\u2019Sullivan, C O\u2019Shea; L Harrington, T O\u2019Connor, D Harrington.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D O\u2019Sullivan for C O\u2019Shea (33), C Carey for C O\u2019Sullivan (43), D O\u2019Sullivan for C O\u2019Sullivan (58), O Sullivan for D Collins (et).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Cormac Dineen (Douglas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilen Rovers 0-24 (0-5-14) Adrigole 0-22 (0-3-16) (after extra time) Ilen Rovers won their first county semi-final in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10417,24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-116780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gaelic-football","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116780","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=116780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}