The ability to get goals, against the wind, earned Fossa a stunning late victory over two-point kings Kilcummin, in an absolutely exhilarating Kerry county intermediate football championship semi-final at Austin Stack Park.<\/p>\n
Entering the last six minutes of an absorbing thriller, the protagonists were at parity (1-14 to 0-17). <\/p>\n
However, with Kilcummin captain Paul O\u2019Shea, his sibling Mark, and Cian Foley, raising orange points for fun with the wind to their backs, it appeared that the only team with a 100% winning record in the competition were set to inflict a second defeat on Fossa in a fortnight.<\/p>\n
The 2023 runners-up had different ideas. In a flash, Fossa hit the front again when substitute Harry Buckley\u2019s shot for a point dropped short, and midfielder Darren Ryan supplied the pass for Paddy Sheehan to send a superb left-foot drive into the roof of the Kilcummin net.<\/p>\n
Kilcummin responded immediately with Foley narrowing the deficit to two points, 2-14 to 0-18, but Fossa then pounced for a second goal in the space of three minutes, with the excellent Emmett O\u2019Shea hitting a right-foot thunderbolt into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Once more, after receiving another gut-wrenching sucker punch, Kilcummin didn\u2019t hide. Skipper O\u2019Shea, a trojan all afternoon, launched over his second two-pointer to again come within three points of the leaders entering the final three minutes.<\/p>\n
With the atmosphere and tension at fever pitch, it was Eoin Talbot who came to the rescue for Fossa yet again, just as he did in the quarter-final against Beaufort last weekend. This time, he threw his body at the feet of Foley to prevent a Kilcummin equalising goal.<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t the end of the drama. In the very last minute, as Fossa sought to play keep-ball, they were turned over, and it was goalkeeper Shane O\u2019Sullivan who was the last-gasp hero, making a brave point-blank stop from Paul O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n
From the rebound, Kilcummin\u2019s Matt Keane rocketed a left-footed attempt off the butt of the near post and wide. The final whistle then sounded, with the losers crest-fallen, and Fossa into a second intermediate decider in the space of three seasons.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Fossa: D Clifford 1-5 (1tpf, 1tp), E O\u2019Shea 1-4 (0-1f), P Sheehan 1-1, P Clifford 0-3 (0-1 \u201945), T O\u2019Gorman 0-1.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Kilcummin: P O\u2019Shea 0-7 (0-1f, 2tp), P O\u2019Leary 0-4, C Foley 0-4 (1tp), M O\u2019Shea 0-4 (2tp), K O\u2019Shea 0-1.<\/p>\n
\n FOSSA: S O\u2019Sullivan; D O\u2019Connell, B Myers, S Buckley; K O\u2019Sullivan, E Talbot, P Sheehan; C O\u2019Shea, D Ryan; K Buckley, P Clifford, T O\u2019Gorman; D Clifford, E O\u2019Shea, F Coffey.<\/p>\n
Subs: H Buckley for Coffey (36), M Rennie for K Buckley (40), A O\u2019Keeffe for S Buckley (47).<\/p>\n
\n KILCUMMIN: B Kealy; D Stack, C O\u2019Leary, D Moynihan; J Williams, D O\u2019Callaghan, K O\u2019Shea; P O\u2019Shea, K Gorman; C Foley, P O\u2019Leary, O O\u2019Connor; S O\u2019Leary, M O\u2019Shea, M Keane.<\/p>\n
Subs: S McSweeney for Williams (43), O O\u2019Leary for K O\u2019Shea (51), P Moynihan for O\u2019Connor (58).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: P Hayes (Kerins O\u2019Rahillys).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ability to get goals, against the wind, earned Fossa a stunning late victory over two-point kings Kilcummin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10416,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-49559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-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\/49559","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=49559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}