{"id":125039,"date":"2025-10-16T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125039\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:05:10","slug":"goals-prove-the-difference-as-cbc-lose-out-narrowly-to-our-ladys-templemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125039\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals prove the difference as CBC lose out narrowly to Our Lady&#8217;s Templemore\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Our Lady\u2019s Secondary School, Templemore: 2-19\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Christian Brothers College: 0-20\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was a disappointing start to the new TUS Dr Harty Cup campaign for Christian Brothers College after defeat to Our Lady\u2019s Secondary School, Templemore at Knocklong in Limerick on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This opening Group 4 encounter slipped away from the Cork side in the second half with goals at crucial stages proving decisive for Our Lady\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CBC only trailed by three points at the interval despite not playing to their potential with wayward shooting and ill-discipline playing a part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite that, they coughed up two goals as they trailed by nine points with a quarter of the game remaining. The city outfit did dominate the final quarter, but they were left with too much to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CBC had Eoghan O\u2019Shea in top form with the forward shooting 0-13 (0-6 f).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Denis Riordan and James Murray impressed in defence, but an overreliance on O\u2019Shea did prove costly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4822026_12_articleinlinemobile_dan_20harty_206.jpg\" alt=\" James Murray of CBC getting his shot away watched by Jack Marnell of Our Lady's Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan\" title=\" James Murray of CBC getting his shot away watched by Jack Marnell of Our Lady's Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan\" class=\"card-img\"\/> James Murray of CBC getting his shot away watched by Jack Marnell of Our Lady&#8217;s Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Our Lady\u2019s led 0-5 to 0-2 after 10 minutes with Ben Coffey landing two outrageous points from difficult angles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O&#8217;Shea did bisect the posts to keep his team in touch, but they were playing second fiddle in a loose game of hurling. Jack Bevans\u2019 frees played a part in helping Our Lady\u2019s stay in front with 16 minutes gone, 0-7 to 0-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A pair of O\u2019Shea frees did keep CBS within touching distance, but seven wides inside the opening 20 minutes was frustrating for the city team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> A Bevans free and efforts from James Ryan and Se\u00e1n Walsh helped Our Lady\u2019s to a four-point advantage with four minutes remaining until the short whistle, 0-10 to 0-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CBC hit two of the last three points of the half with Michael Tadhg Brosnan\u2019s white flag the highlight, 0-11 to 0-8 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Our Lady\u2019s made their dominance count on the resumption with 1-2 in the first five minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">O\u2019Dwyer with the goal after a peach of a pass from Ryan, 1-13 to 0-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The eventual winners landed three of the next five points and with 15 minutes to go, it did look like the game was gone from CBC, 1-16 to 0-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But the introduction of subs, bringing Brosnan out from full-forward and with Cian Lawton busy around the middle, CBC made a brave comeback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4822029_12_articleinlinemobile_dan_20harty_204.jpg\" alt=\" CBC'S Michael Tadhg Brosnan goes high with Shay Gleeson of\u00a0 Our Lady's Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan\" title=\" CBC'S Michael Tadhg Brosnan goes high with Shay Gleeson of\u00a0 Our Lady's Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan\" class=\"card-img\"\/> CBC&#8217;S Michael Tadhg Brosnan goes high with Shay Gleeson of\u00a0 Our Lady&#8217;s Templemore. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They put four unanswered points together with O\u2019Shea pointing three frees and a Michael Quill effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bevans did get Our Lady\u2019s second green flag from a close range free after 49 minutes, and it looked like the score that would break the camel\u2019s back, 2-16 to 0-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The sides traded points before the Cork school raised five of the next six white flags in what was a great team effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An O\u2019Shea green flag would have made things interesting at the death, but his shot went across the face of goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A point from O\u2019Dwyer was the insurance score for Our Lady\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CBC face a crunch game against city rivals Gaelchol\u00e1iste Mhuire in three weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Scorers for Our Lady\u2019s Secondary School, Templemore: J Bevans 1-9 (1-7 f), P O\u2019Dwyer 1-2, B Coffey, S Gleeson 0-2 each, B Collier, C Broderick, S Walsh, J Ryan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Christian Brothers College: E O\u2019Shea 0-13 (0-6 f), C Lawton 0-3, B Hegarty 0-2, M Quill, M T Brosnan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> OUR LADY\u2019S SECONDARY SCHOOL, TEMPLEMORE: C Ryan; D Hoare, N Delaney, T Burke; M Conroy, S Gleeson, B Collier; C Broderick, S Walsh; J Ryan, P O\u2019Shea, J Bevans; P O\u2019Dwyer, J Marnell, D Coffey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Subs: S Burke for P O\u2019Shea (55), L Dunphy for J Ryan (59).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE: K Flood (Ballygarvan); J Costello (Clonakilty), D Riordan (Kilworth), D Kingston (Mallow); C O\u2019Flynn (Blarney), C Connolly (Glen Rovers), J Murray (St Finbarr\u2019s); C Lawton (Midleton), S Riordan (Kilworth); M Quill (Blackrock), E O\u2019Shea (Ballinhassig), B Hegarty (Ballinora); S Hurley (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), M T Brosnan (Glen Rovers), T Huggins (Sarsfields).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Subs: J Hegarty (Ballinora) for S Hurley, G Kingston (Mallow) for T Huggins (both h-t), M Murphy (Midleton) for S Riordan (42), D Holland (Inniscarra) for B Hegarty, B Power (Ballincollig) for C O\u2019Flynn (both 52).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Referee: Johnny Murphy (Ballylanders, Limerick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Lady\u2019s Secondary School, Templemore: 2-19\u00a0 Christian Brothers College: 0-20\u00a0 It was a disappointing start to the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-125039","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\/125039","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=125039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}