{"id":177048,"date":"2025-11-12T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177048\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:50:12","slug":"st-francis-college-rochestown-roar-back-with-four-goals-to-sink-high-school-clonmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177048\/","title":{"rendered":"St Francis College Rochestown roar back with four goals to sink High School Clonmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n St Francis College Rochestown 4-8\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n CBS High School Clonmel 1-13\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

St Francis College Rochestown were stung by late lapses against Kenmare three weeks ago, but on an arc-less Maguires Pitch at UL on Wednesday afternoon, there would be no repeat of those errors. Four goals, three carved from turnovers, saw them overturn a seven-point interval deficit and keep their Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed hopes alive.<\/p>\n

Had the arc been in operation, at least three orange flags would have been raised, yet even that wouldn\u2019t have altered the outcome. It would only have extended the margin in Roco\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

But it was a scenario that did not look likely at the break. After a half of football with High School running the show, they were 1-9 to 1-2 ahead at the interval, having been patient in pass and shot selection. Roco didn\u2019t have a sniff beyond their first goal.<\/p>\n

And then, within eight minutes of the resumption, Rochestown had already surpassed their first half scoring tally with two goals, both of which came from turnovers at the other end of the field.<\/p>\n

\"PaddyPaddy Spelman, Clonmel High School, clearing the ball against Jack O’Brien, St Francis College Rochestown. Picture: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n

Mark O\u2019Brien and Cathal Lowney combined to tee up P\u00e1draig McGrath for the first, before a sweeping move \u2013 McGrath, Cummins, Callum Griffin, back to McGrath \u2013 opened the gate for Lowney to leap and palm home, his finish lobbing the advancing goalkeeper. Suddenly, a side that had looked adrift were within one.<\/p>\n

A stunner from Cummins that would have been a two-pointer, and another white flag from a Roco wing-back in Joe Mouret left them a point ahead, 3-4 to 1-9. Paddy Spelman clipped one back for the Tipp school in the 44th minute to level the contest for the third time. They would still be level by the 52nd minute, 3-6 to 1-12.<\/p>\n

And while Luke Foley nudged High School back in front from a free, Roco\u2019s response was a fourth major, Jack O\u2019Brien with a stunning finish as he turned his man and fired to the bottom corner.<\/p>\n

\"BriainBriain Morrisson, Clonmel High School, under pressure from Diarmuid O’Donoghue, St Francis College Rochestown. Picture Brendan: Gleeson<\/p>\n

A couple of points from McGrath stretched their lead out to four, with High School Clonmel unable to stop Roco\u2019s running game in the final quarter. Foley was shown a late black card to compound their disappointment.<\/p>\n

Earlier, O\u2019Brien\u2019s ninth-minute goal had Roco 1-0 to 0-1 to the good, but High School rattled off five of the next six, and then three more white flags, before Jamal Yousif pounced to slam home a stunning goal. A seven-point cushion at half-time looked secure. It wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Roco\u2019s second-half ignition changed everything.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for St Francis College Rochestown: J O\u2019Brien 2-0, P McGrath 1-2, C Lowney 1-0, K O\u2019Neill 0-2, B Corkery Delaney (f), D O\u2019Connor, E Cummins, J Mouret 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for CBS High School Clonmel: J Yousif 1-2, L Foley 0-4 (0-3 f), F Napier 0-2, K Smith, M McGuire, P Spelman, A McAndrew, B Morrisson 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n ST FRANCIS COLLEGE ROCHESTOWN: J O\u2019Flaherty (Douglas); C Lowney (Tracton), C Griffin (Passage West), D O\u2019Donoghue (Douglas); J Mouret (Douglas), L Kelleher (Douglas), E Cummins (Cobh); L Collins (Ballygarvan), D O\u2019Connor (Douglas); R Sweeney (Douglas), M O\u2019Brien (Douglas), J O\u2019Brien (Douglas); P McGrath (Douglas), B Corkery Delaney (Carrigaline), K O\u2019Neill (Cobh).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: T Murray (Douglas) for O\u2019Neill (51), A Kelly (Douglas) for Sweeney (53).<\/p>\n

\n CBS HIGH SCHOOL CLONMEL: J O\u2019Brien; J Lyons, R Galko, A Ryan; L Hannigan, P Spelman, B Landers; M McGuire, L Foley; A McAndrew, K Smith, B Morrisson; C Freaney, F Napier, J Yousif.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: O O\u2019Reilly for Hannigan (43), J Aylward for Landers (44), D Ryan for McAndrew (50).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: J Murphy (Ballylanders, Limerick)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Francis College Rochestown 4-8\u00a0 CBS High School Clonmel 1-13\u00a0 St Francis College Rochestown were stung by late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1263,81492,10417,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-177048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-sport","9":"tag-gaa-corn-ui-mhuiri","10":"tag-gaelic-football","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breakingnews","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\/115538233134130469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177048","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=177048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}