{"id":139740,"date":"2025-10-23T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139740\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:28:11","slug":"clonakilty-cc-stun-st-brendans-killarney-with-statement-four-point-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139740\/","title":{"rendered":"Clonakilty CC stun St Brendan\u2019s Killarney with statement four-point win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Clonakilty Community College 0-15 (0-2-11)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n St Brendan\u2019s College Killarney 0-11 (0-1-9)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

Everyone loves an upset. And this one will taste especially sweet down west.<\/p>\n

Clonakilty Community College, a team that didn\u2019t make it out of their group last year, opened their Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed campaign with a scalp few saw coming \u2013 toppling St Brendan\u2019s College, Killarney, last year\u2019s beaten finalists, in Cill na Martra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t smash-and-grab stuff either. No lucky bounce, no fluke goal, no miracle. Clon were simply the better team \u2013 sharper, hungrier, and far more efficient.<\/p>\n

They were 0-5 to 0-3 down after 16 minutes, but the tide turned in the second quarter. Clon hit six points without reply to lead 0-9 to 0-5, the Sem going 16 minutes without scoring before finally ending the drought before the break.<\/p>\n

The same pattern held after the restart. Another barren spell \u2013 12 minutes this time \u2013 and another Clon surge. By the time Jerry O\u2019Leary, Se\u00e1n Whelton and Dylan Harrington fired three on the spin in the 42nd minute, Clon were 0-13 to 0-6 in front.<\/p>\n

St Brendan\u2019s rallied briefly. Joey McCarthy\u2019s two-pointer cut the gap to five, white flags from Ben Kelliher and Liam O\u2019Brien left three between them, 12 minutes to play.<\/p>\n

\"ClonakiltyClonakilty Community College\u2019s Ois\u00edn Harrington dives to block a shot from St Brendan\u2019s College\u2019s Mark O\u2019Connell. Picture: Chani Anderson.<\/p>\n

In the 56th minute, Liam O\u2019Brien\u2019s two-point free attempt dropped short. Mark Kennelly gathered, went for goal, but clipped it over. A minute later, Byerly rattled the crossbar and over at the other end \u2013 the gap back to four, 0-15 to 0-11, where it stayed.<\/p>\n

The Sem created plenty but converted little. They finished with 14 wides and four efforts dropped short \u2013 twice the inaccuracy of their opponents. Zach Cronin stood out in defence, but up front they were miles off their usual standard.<\/p>\n

Clon\u2019s composure told. Whelton got them going with a two-point free early on, though Brendan\u2019s responded with five of the next six to lead 0-5 to 0-3. Then came the spark.<\/p>\n

A Tom Whooley point closed the gap, before Clon stitched together the move of the game \u2013 James Murray, Olan Murphy, Jamie Collins and Whooley all linking neatly before Collins levelled.<\/p>\n

\"ClonakiltyClonakilty Community College\u2019s Jason Murphy chases down St Brendan\u2019s College\u2019s Liam O\u2019Brien. Picture: Chani Anderson.<\/p>\n

Whooley then turned provider for Harrington\u2019s stunning two-pointer, and moments later Rory Twohig\u2019s kick-out found Conrad Murphy, who sent it straight to Whelton for another. In a flash, they were 0-8 to 0-5 clear.<\/p>\n

They carried that three-point margin into the break and never once looked like surrendering it.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Clonakilty Community College: S Whelton 0-5 (1 tpf, 0-1 f), D Harrington 0-3 (1 tp), J O\u2019Leary 0-2, J Byerly, T Whooley, J Murray, J Collins, D Harte 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for St Brendan\u2019s College Killarney: L O\u2019Brien 0-4 (0-1 f), B Kelliher 0-3 (0-2 f), J McCarthy 0-2 (tp), F Blackwell, M Kennelly 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n CLONAKILTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: R Twohig (Kilmeen); O Harrington (Kilmeen), H O\u2019Donovan (Kilmeen), T Bailey (Kilmeen); J O\u2019Leary (Ballinascarthy), D Harrington (Clonakilty), O Murphy (Kilmeen); M Collins (Ibane Gaels), E Deiseach (Clonakilty); D Harte (Clonakilty), S Whelton (St James), J Murray (Kilmeen); T Whooley (Clonakilty), C Murphy (Ibane Gaels), J Collins (Ibane Gaels).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: J Byerly (Clonakilty) for Harte (46), R O\u2019Donovan (Ibane Gaels) for Murray (49), J Maguire (Castlehaven) for Murphy (53), E Hicks (Carbery Rangers) for Collins (56).<\/p>\n

\n ST BRENDAN\u2019S COLLEGE KILLARNEY: K Robak (Dr Crokes); D McCarthy (Listry) F Doyle (Fossa), Z Cronin (Kilcummin); J Rudden (Glenflesk), R Walsh (Killarney Legion), J Nash (Dr Crokes); M Kennelly (Fossa), M O\u2019Carroll (Dr Crokes); L Hennigan (Dr Crokes), J McCarthy (Spa), F Blackwell (Killarney Legion); L O\u2019Brien (Glenflesk), B Kelliher (Dr Crokes), J Dempsey (Milltown\/Castlemaine).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: J Ahern (Kilcummin) for Dempsey (47), B O\u2019Connor (Killarney Legion) for Nash (56), J Henderson (Firies) for Blackwell (60+1).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: J Kelleher (St John\u2019s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clonakilty Community College 0-15 (0-2-11)\u00a0 St Brendan\u2019s College Killarney 0-11 (0-1-9)\u00a0 Everyone loves an upset. And this one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1263,10417,9,10,24,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-139740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-sport","9":"tag-gaelic-football","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-cork-gaa","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115421597508907673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139740","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=139740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}