{"id":35369,"date":"2025-08-31T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:35:08","slug":"imokilly-overcome-muskerry-to-reach-cork-pshc-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35369\/","title":{"rendered":"Imokilly overcome Muskerry to reach Cork PSHC quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Imokilly 1-23\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n Muskerry 0-15\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a procession. Muskerry made sure of that. But Imokilly were nowhere near the level they had touched in dismantling Avondhu, nor the cut they showed when these two met in last year\u2019s Divisions\/Colleges final.<\/p>\n

The drizzle didn\u2019t help. P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn was a damp, grey theatre for a game that never caught fire on Sunday evening. Imokilly got out with the Denis O\u2019Riordan Cup and a place in the Cork PSHC quarter-finals, but only after 40 minutes of sloppiness.<\/p>\n

With their opponents having only scored eight first-half points, the expectation would have been that Imokilly would have posted at least double that tally by the interval, on course to follow the ritual with another thumping.<\/p>\n

Instead, they were only three ahead, 0-11 to 0-8. Muskerry deserve their part in it. They harried Imokilly\u2019s forwards, Paul Ring and Fenton Denny standing out in defence.<\/p>\n

\" James McCarthy, Imokilly, gets away from Fenton Denny, Muskerry. Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

But Imokilly were all out of sorts. Misplaced passes. Sloppy wides. Seven wides and one dropped short before the interval. They looked like a team expecting to stretch the legs and cruise it. Muskerry wouldn\u2019t allow it, at least not until after Se\u00e1n O\u2019Neill had clipped a neat score on 41 minutes to leave four in it, 0-15 to 0-11.<\/p>\n

Then came the inevitable Imokilly spell of control. Jack Leahy \u2013 exceptional again \u2013 spearheaded a five-in-a-row burst, with goalkeeper Eoin Davis even jogging up to nail a free.<\/p>\n

When Muskerry did find an answer, their first score in 12 minutes, Imokilly simply responded with a goal. Joe Stack won possession. He passed to Leahy who seized on it, popped to the net, and closed the book, 1-20 to 0-12.<\/p>\n

Muskerry had got the scoring underway through Johnny Galvin, and Imokilly were level within the minute, with an unusual visit from the Gentleman of Aspen Rugby Football Club, Colorado there to watch it all unfold. But unlike against Avondhu, it took Imokilly nine minutes to notch three points.<\/p>\n

When Muskerry hit their second, Imokilly answered with three more. After a quarter of an hour, it was 0-6 to 0-2.<\/p>\n

\" Jack Griffin, Imokilly, Colm O’Callaghan, Muskerry, battle for the high ball. Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

Any minute now, the candystripes would spark into life.<\/p>\n

But by the 30th minute, Imokilly\u2019s lead had been cut down to three. And they were very, very fortunate the Muskerry men weren\u2019t the ones in command of that three-point lead.<\/p>\n

In the 20th minute, Matt Brady picked out Galvin, and though his shot was short, a rare slip from Eoin Davis almost saw the St Catherine\u2019s \u2018keeper drop the ball into his own net, but he got away with the concession of a 65, which Matthew Bradley converted.<\/p>\n

Bradley again popped up with another while Mark O\u2019Connell left one point in it after 23 minutes. Imokilly had restored the uncomfortable cushion to some extent, by responding with three, but on the eve of the half \u2013 Muskerry came within inches of the jackpot.<\/p>\n

Mark Lucey was denied a close-range effort by Davis, but it trickled into the path of Se\u00e1n O\u2019Neill. He tried to get it into the gaping net, a kick would suffice, but Ciar\u00e1n Joyce got back brilliantly to deny him.<\/p>\n

\" Pat Horgan, Chairperson Cork Gaa, presents the cup to Brian Lawton, Imokilly captain. Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

Three ahead at the break, Imokilly closed it out in the final quarter. The scoreline stretched, but Muskerry had dragged far more out of Imokilly than they wanted to give.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Imokilly: J Leahy 1-8 (0-4 f), D Healy 0-4, M Kelly, B Lawton 0-3 each, C Cahill 0-2, L Duggan Murray, E Davis (f), W Leahy 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Muskerry: M Bradley 0-6 (0-1 f), J Galvin, S O\u2019Neill, J Lane 0-2 each, K Murphy, M O\u2019Connell, P Ring 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n IMOKILLY: E Davis (St Catherine\u2019s); T Wilk (Cobh), C O\u2019Brien (St Ita\u2019s), J McCarthy (Dungourney); J Griffin (Dungourney), C Joyce (Castlemartyr), J Cronin (Lisgoold); M Kelly (Castlemartyr), B Cooper (Youghal); C Cahill (Cloyne), D Healy (Lisgoold), B Lawton (Castlemartyr) (c); W Leahy (Aghada), J Stack (Castlemartyr), J Leahy (Dungourney).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: M Hegarty (Lisgoold) for Leahy (46), O Fitzgerald (St Catherine\u2019s) for Kelly (54), A Sherlock (Cloyne) for O\u2019Brien, D Joyce (Castlemartyr) for Cronin (both 56), L Duggan Murray (Russell Rovers) for Lawton (58).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n MUSKERRY: J Walsh (Grenagh); B O\u2019Sullivan (Aghabullogue), F Denny (Ballincollig), R Honohan (Donoughmore); P Ring (Aghabullogue), M Brady (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), C Dalton (Ballincollig); M O\u2019Connell (Dripsey), J Galvin (\u00c9ire \u00d3g); M Lucey (Donoughmore), J Foley (Aghabullogue), C O\u2019Callaghan (\u00c9ire \u00d3g); M Bradley (Aghabullogue), J Lane (Aghabullogue), S O\u2019Neill (Ballincollig).<\/p>\n

\n Subs: K Murphy (Ballinora) for Lucey (44), R Coleman (Grenagh) for Foley (48), O O\u2019Shea (\u00c9ire \u00d3g) for O\u2019Connell (57).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Referee: P O\u2019Mahony (Kilbrittain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imokilly 1-23\u00a0 Muskerry 0-15\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a procession. Muskerry made sure of that. But Imokilly were nowhere near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1263,24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-35369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-sport","9":"tag-cork-gaa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-hurling","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35369","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=35369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}