{"id":309131,"date":"2026-01-29T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309131\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:34:10","slug":"dcu-battle-past-mtu-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309131\/","title":{"rendered":"DCU battle past MTU Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCU D\u00f3chas \u00c9ireann 4-13 MTU Cork 2-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Stephen Barry at MTU Cork<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCU D\u00f3chas \u00c9ireann blasted four goals to march into the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finals with an impressive victory away to MTU Cork.<\/p>\n

Despite the concessions, MTU still held the lead entering the final 10 minutes as the hail bucketed down in a fixture brought forward to 3.45pm due to an adverse forecast.<\/p>\n

At that point, last year\u2019s runners-up came with a 1-3 burst, with substitute Luke Murphy netting the goal to seal their progression to a last-four clash with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.<\/p>\n

Free-taker Denis Walsh finished with 1-5, while Cathal Beirne added 0-5 and assisted two goals.<\/p>\n

MTU got off to the better start with Ronan Walsh and Mikey Finn points followed by captain Alan Walsh sweeping the sliotar home from Darragh O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s delivery.<\/p>\n

DCU replied with two goals within two minutes. Sam Byrne drew a penalty, which Denis Walsh buried to the net, before Beirne fed Byrne for a tap-in finish. The visitors led 2-0 to 1-2.<\/p>\n

Alan Walsh and Beirne both struck a brace of points, while the latter also had a chance cleared off the line by Ronan Walsh.<\/p>\n

In the 23rd minute, Johnny Murphy carved out an opening for Diarmuid Healy to dispatch past the keeper as MTU jumped 2-7 to 2-4 ahead.<\/p>\n

They led by four entering stoppage time, but Beirne\u2019s brilliant pullback was controlled by Donagh Murphy to whip to the net. The gap was back to one, 2-10 to 3-6.<\/p>\n

In worsening conditions, Stephen Manogue saved a close-range Finn free and an Alan Walsh attempt. When Greg Kelly and Denis Walsh put back-to-back points together, DCU edged ahead.<\/p>\n

Two huge scores from Kerry wing-back Ronan Walsh restored MTU\u2019s lead in the 48th minute, but they wouldn\u2019t score again until the third minute of added time.<\/p>\n

A Beirne brace was followed by Luke Murphy\u2019s 57th-minute clinching goal, after a delivery from Denis Walsh, who soon added a free for extra insurance.<\/p>\n

As MTU gave chase, Healy and Finn had close-range frees saved, while O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s late attempt to drop in a 65 drifted over the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final DCU D\u00f3chas \u00c9ireann 4-13 MTU Cork 2-15 By Stephen Barry at MTU Cork…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-309131","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115976291606983541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309131","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=309131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}