\n St Francis College, Rochestown 2-11\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
\n Intermediate School Killorglin 0-8\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
They had to go 25 minutes without a score in the second half at Mallow on Wednesday, but St Francis College of Rochestown more than earned their TUS Corn U\u00ed Mhuir\u00ed semi-final spot.<\/p>\n
When Cathal Lowney pointed for the Cork side early in the second half, it put them 1-10 to 0-2 ahead of IS Killorglin but, against a brazing wind, they found themselves on the back foot for much of the rest of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where the first half had been about building a lead, this was about containment and, though five scores were allowed to Killorglin\u2019s danger-men Adam O\u2019Neill and Tom\u00e1s Joy (one two-pointer for the latter), a momentum-shifting goal was never allowed to materalise. Despite the absence of Liam Kelleher, the Roco defence stayed strong and the gap wasn\u2019t allowed to fall below five points, 1-10 to 0-8, with Joe Mouret and Diarmuid O\u2019Donoghue impressive before the game was made safe in injury time.<\/p>\n
A good counter-attack ended with sub Odhran O\u2019Donovan doing well to create an opening for fellow replacement Philip Heavey and at the death Callum Griffin capped a good display in defence with the clinching point. They will now face Tralee CBS in the last four.<\/p>\n
Early on, it looked like Killorglin, playing into the strong wind, might frustrate Rochestown as a pair of Adam O\u2019Neill points gave them an early cushion. The Kerry side held possession well and when Rochestown did manage to gain ground, their shooting was wayward \u2013 five early wides were kicked.<\/p>\n
However, one of those was a half-chance of a goal from Jack O\u2019Brien, who shot into the side-netting \u2013 when a green flag did arrive on the quarter-hour mark, the hard-working wing-forward played a key role.<\/p>\n
After a turnover, it was O\u2019Brien\u2019s booming pass from deep that found P\u00e1draig McGrath deep in Killorglin territory. While he couldn\u2019t hold on to the ball, he showed good ground football skills and side-footed a shot past Adam Radny for a lead score.<\/p>\n
Slowly, they began to convert their possession into scores, with a free from captain Dara O\u2019Sullivan followed by a beauty from O\u2019Brien. There might even have been another goal as McGrath\u2019s delivery bounced dangerously in the goalmouth but Killorglin centre-back David Butler dealt with the danger.<\/p>\n
Even so, Rochestown – whose manager Liam Sheehan once played for Killorglin in a Corn final – were on a roll. With Diarmuid O\u2019Donoghue excellent in defence, they kept the forward press going and a nice Mark O\u2019Brien point was followed by three two-pointers as half-time approached.<\/p>\n
When Killorglin were punished for a three-up transgression, O\u2019Sullivan landed a free from outside the arc; a similar offence moments later led to a slightly more difficult kick and it couldn\u2019t be punished, but there was still time for more.<\/p>\n
Mark O\u2019Brien\u2019s beauty, set up by McGrath, made it 1-7 to 0-2 and O\u2019Sullivan ensured they retired with a ten-point advantage as he raised the orange flag again from a dead ball.<\/p>\n
Five minutes into the restart, Ronan Sweeney was the creator as Lowney got forward from the full-back line to slot over.<\/p>\n
The clock showed 35 minutes and would have moved into the red by the time Rochestown added to their tally \u2013 they ensured that a cushion always remained, though.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for St Francis College: D O\u2019Sullivan 0-5 (2 2ptf, 0-1 f), P McGrath, P Heavey 1-0 each, M O\u2019Brien 0-3 (1 2pt), J O\u2019Brien, C Lowney, C Griffin 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for IS Killorglin: A O\u2019Neill 0-5 (0-2 f), T Joy 0-3 (1 2pt, 0-1 f).<\/p>\n
\n ST FRANCIS COLLEGE: J O\u2019Flaherty (Douglas); C Griffin (Passage), C Lowney (Tracton), D O\u2019Donoghue (Douglas); J Mouret (Douglas), D McClafferty (St Michael\u2019s), E Cummins (Cobh); L Collins (Ballygarvan), D O\u2019Connor (Douglas); R Sweeney (Douglas), M O\u2019Brien (Douglas), J O\u2019Brien (Douglas); D O\u2019Sullivan (Nemo Rangers), B Corkery Delaney (Carrigaline), P McGrath (Douglas).<\/p>\n
\n Subs:\u00a0O O\u2019Donovan (Passage) for Corkery Delaney (51), P Heavey (Passage) for Sweeney (54), S O\u2019Flynn (Douglas) for McClafferty (58), J Gordon (Douglas) for Collins (60+1).<\/p>\n
\n IS KILLORGLIN: A Radny; D Kelly, S Griffin, C Birmingham; J Jones, D Butler, D Flynn; F Kennedy, T O\u2019Sullivan; M Culhane, A O\u2019Neill, C Evans; T Joy, C Griffin, O O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C Foley for Culhane (36).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: J Murphy (Limerick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Francis College, Rochestown 2-11\u00a0 Intermediate School Killorglin 0-8\u00a0 They had to go 25 minutes without a score…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-284176","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115894400027562423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284176","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=284176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}