{"id":17693,"date":"2025-08-23T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17693\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:18:11","slug":"cill-na-martra-back-on-track-in-safc-with-huge-win-over-fermoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17693\/","title":{"rendered":"Cill na Martra back on track in SAFC with huge win over Fermoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n             Cill na Martra 1-20 (1-2-16) Fermoy 1-10 (1-3-4)\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cill na Martra are back on track to make the knockout stages of the McCarthy Insurance SAFC after their win over Fermoy at \u00c9ire \u00d3g on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The West Muskerry side were the better team overall and a strong finish, where they scored eight points without reply, ensured they ran out comprehensive winners in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Greg Lardner opened the scoring for Fermoy before we had the first two-pointer of the half, with David Lardner scoring, to make it 0-3 to no score<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But their lead didn\u2019t last long with Cill na Martra broke at pace and Eoin \u00d3 Conaill found the back of the net to see the level after eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Criostoir \u00d3 Meachair put Cill na Martra in front, with Gary O\u2019Callaghan seeing them level for the second time with 20 minutes gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniel \u00d3 Duinnin and Damien \u00d3 hUrdail put Cill na Martra back in front, before Fermoy\u2019s second two-pointer saw the lead swing their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This time Shane Aherne raised the orange flag, to make it 0-7 to 1-3.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4753641_4_articleinlinemobile_DKE220825Football004.jpg\" alt=\" Fermoy's Greg Lardner is tackled by Sean O Foirreidhe of Cill Na Martra.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.\" title=\" Fermoy's Greg Lardner is tackled by Sean O Foirreidhe of Cill Na Martra.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.\" class=\"card-img\"\/> Fermoy&#8217;s Greg Lardner is tackled by Sean O Foirreidhe of Cill Na Martra.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With 21 minutes gone O\u2019Callaghan was on the end of a sweeping Fermoy move to find the back of the net, to make it 1-8 to 1-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cill na Martra pulled it back through Jason MacCarthaigh when he scored a two-pointer from a free, before they were awarded a penalty for a foul on Shane \u00d3 Duinnin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Their keeper, Miche\u00e1l \u00d3 Deasuna stepped up to take it, but his shot went over the bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was the last score of the half as Fermoy led by 1-8 to 1-6 at the break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">MacCarthaigh hit a two-pointer at the start of the second half to level it, with \u00d3 Duinnin putting the winners in front.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4753644_4_articleinlinemobile_DKE220825Football007.jpg\" alt=\" Ciaran O Duinnin of Cill Na Martra races past Fermoy's James Molloy.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.\" title=\" Ciaran O Duinnin of Cill Na Martra races past Fermoy's James Molloy.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.\" class=\"card-img\"\/> Ciaran O Duinnin of Cill Na Martra races past Fermoy&#8217;s James Molloy.\u00a0Picture: David Keane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lardner pulled a point back from a free, before two frees from MacCarthaigh extended Cill na Martra\u2019s lead to 1-11 to 1-9. Lardner was on target again, both from frees, but this proved to be Fermoy\u2019s last score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Four points from \u00d3 hUrdhail, including a two, along with scores from \u00d3 Duinnin and \u00d3 Connail ensured that Cill na Martra took the points and put themselves back in contention to make the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Scorers for Cill na Martra: J MacCarthaigh 0-7 (0-3 f, 1 tp), D \u00d3 hUrdail 0-5 (1 tp), E \u00d3 Connail 1-0, D \u00d3 Duinnin 0-4, M \u00d3 Deasuna (0-1 pen), C \u00d3 Meachair, C \u00d3 Connail, C \u00d3 Duinnin 0-1 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Fermoy: G O\u2019Callaghan 1-2, A Lardner 0-4 (2 tp), A Aherne 0-2 (1 tp), G Lardner, D Daly 0-1 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            CILL NA MARTRA: M \u00d3 Deasuna; C \u00d3 Conaill, F \u00d3 Faol\u00e1in, D MacLochlainn; C \u00d3 Meachair, S \u00d3 Foirreidh, T \u00d3 Corcora; A \u00d3 Cuana, G \u00d3 Goillidhe; D \u00d3 hUrdail, C \u00d3 Duinnin, J MacCarthaigh; E \u00d3 Conaill, D \u00d3 Duinnin, S \u00d3 Duinnin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Subs: A \u00d3 Duinnin for E \u00d3 Conaill (44), C \u00d3 Foirreidh for C \u00d3 Meachair (50), A \u00d3 Loingsigh for S \u00d3 Duinnin (60).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            FERMOY: S Coughlan; L Aherne, P Murphy, J Molloy; G Lardner, T Clancy, M Brennan; S Aherne, J O\u2019Brien; P de Roiste, D Daly, J Hutchings; D O\u2019Carroll, G O\u2019Callaghan, D Lardner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Subs: D Kelly for D O\u2019Carroll, D O\u2019Callaghan for M Brennan (both 44), K Morrison for G O\u2019Callaghan (54), R O\u2019Hagan for D Lardner (56), A Aherne for D Daly (60).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Referee: Brian Crowley, Castlehaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cill na Martra 1-20 (1-2-16) Fermoy 1-10 (1-3-4) Cill na Martra are back on track to make the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-17693","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\/17693","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=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}