{"id":17153,"date":"2025-08-22T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17153\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:23:08","slug":"stylish-nemo-breeze-past-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17153\/","title":{"rendered":"Stylish Nemo breeze past Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Nemo Rangers 1-15 (1-3-9) Douglas 1-7 (1-0-7)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

In what was a disappointing city derby, Nemo Rangers breezed past Douglas in the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC contest at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Both teams had two points apiece coming into this Group 3 Round 2 clash, but it was Robbie O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s team that led throughout and never looked at any stage of being reeled in. They are in a strong position to qualify once again for the knockout stages but it isn\u2019t rubberstamped yet.<\/p>\n

This southside derby lacked that championship intensity, but Nemo Rangers won\u2019t mind about that, they did what had to be done.<\/p>\n

They led by six points as early as the 21st minute and were coasting at that stage in truth. They were 12 points clear at the interval. They went 20 minutes without a score, but the result was never in doubt.<\/p>\n

Douglas, wearing their away kit, didn\u2019t show their defensive solidity having had the best defensive record in the Division 1 league this year and limited their opening round opponents St Michael\u2019s to four points.<\/p>\n

Douglas only had two scorers on what was a forgettable evening for them. They did play the last 13 plus minutes with 14 players, but the game was pretty much over at that stage.<\/p>\n

\"Douglas'Douglas’ Conor Kingston in action against Nemo’s Mark Hill. Picture: David Creedon<\/p>\n

Nemo Rangers set their stall out early having been sluggish in the opening 30 minutes against Ballincollig four weeks ago. Mark Cronin kicked over a two-pointer after three minutes following smart play by the Trabeg-based outfit.<\/p>\n

Douglas had the majority of possession in the opening quarter, but wrong decision making and four wides didn\u2019t help their cause during that period. Their opposition were the opposite, Conor Horgan extended his side\u2019s lead with a white flag after 10 minutes before Douglas did get their first score two minutes later.<\/p>\n

It was worth the wait too when Shane Kingston clipped over a point from the tightest of angles.<\/p>\n

Another two-pointer from Mark Cronin, this time from a free, gave Nemo a 0-5 to 0-1 advantage after 19 stop-start minutes.<\/p>\n

Ronan Dalton and Bryan Hayes pointed for their team, but Douglas had a goal opportunity sandwiched between those scores, Conor Russell\u2019s powerful shot was beaten away excellently by Nemo and Cork netminder Miche\u00e1l Aodh Martin.<\/p>\n

The winners were more economical and struck for a goal after 25 minutes when a typical swift Nemo move resulted in Conor Horgan finishing to the net, 1-7 to 0-1.<\/p>\n

The teams did trade points, Shane Kingston for Douglas and Kevin O\u2019Donovan for Nemo before Dalton kicked over Nemo\u2019s third two-pointer. The same player got the last score of the first half, 1-11 to 0-2 at half-time.<\/p>\n

It was a fairly low-key start to the second half before Douglas did score 1-1 in a minute. Shane Kingston with the point while impressive sub Se\u00e1n Coakley netted a gorgeous goal as he chipped the ball over Martin, 1-11 to 1-3 after 37 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Nemo'sNemo’s Mark Cronin solo’s towards the Douglas goal. Picture: David Creedon<\/p>\n

Douglas sub Jack Cunningham couldn\u2019t have had a better chance of getting his side\u2019s second goal, but somehow from close range, he failed to hit the back of the net with 17 minutes left. A Coakley free did leave seven points in it.<\/p>\n

Douglas though were then reduced to 14 players after 47 minutes after a David Buckley second yellow card. After three wides after the short whistle and 20 minutes without a score, O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s charges did finally score 12 minutes from time after Mark Cronin slotted over an easy free, 1-12 to 1-4.<\/p>\n

The closing stages really petered out. Nemo kicked three of the last six points to ease to an eight-point victory.<\/p>\n

Alan O\u2019Donovan picked up a second yellow card for Nemo right at the end, no damage done.<\/p>\n

Scorers for Nemo Rangers: M Cronin 0-6 (1 2pt, 1 2pt f, 0-1 f), C Horgan 1-2, R Dalton 0-3 (1 2pt), K O\u2019Donovan 0-2, K Histon, B Hayes 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

Douglas: S Kingston 0-5 (0-1 f), S Coakley 1-2 (0-1 f).<\/p>\n

NEMO RANGERS: M A Martin; M Hill, C Molloy, K Histon; C McCartan, S Cronin, K Fulignati; A O\u2019Donovan, B Murphy; B Cripps, M Cronin, K O\u2019Donovan; B Hayes, R Dalton, C Horgan.<\/p>\n

Subs: C Kiely for B Cripps (22, inj), L Horgan for R Dalton (35, inj), C Moore for K Fulignati (58, inj).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n DOUGLAS: A Cotter; N Walsh, N Lynch, J O\u2019Callaghan-Maher; S Aherne, J Burke, C Kingston; D Buckley, K Shanahan; P Lucey, L Dwan-Fogarty, A Cantwell; S Powter, C Russell, S Kingston.<\/p>\n

Subs: S Coakley for C Kingston (30 to f-t, temp), B Powter for P Lucey (h-t), J Cunningham for C Russell (39), D Ward for J O\u2019Callaghan-Maher (54), S O\u2019Leary for A Cantwell (64, inj).<\/p>\n

Referee: Ciar\u00e1n Murphy (Glanworth).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nemo Rangers 1-15 (1-3-9) Douglas 1-7 (1-0-7)\u00a0 In what was a disappointing city derby, Nemo Rangers breezed past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,24,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-17153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-gaa","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","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=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}