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Paul O’Sullivan, Newtownshandrum, under pressure from David Forde and Danny O’Flynn of Charleville in the SHC.\u00a0Picture: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\nCharleville never trailed at any stage as victory in Sunday\u2019s north Cork derby with Newtownshandrum earned them a Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC knockout spot with a game to spare.<\/p>\n
On a perfectly manicured Milford pitch, Charleville finished well in the first half to give themselves a nice half-time cushion; then, while Newtown did come back to within four on a few occasions in the second period, the winners buttressed their tally near the end.<\/p>\n
They will definitely be advancing from the group \u2013 though the final-round fixture against Midleton will determine whether they finish first or second \u2013 while Newtown are out.<\/p>\n
This derby clash, the first championship meetings between the clubs\u2019 standard-bearers since 1992, was well-attended and superbly administered by the host club, with the pitch of bowling-green standard, but the game never reached the levels of the anticipated occasion.<\/p>\n
Charleville never trailed at any stage and could have forged an earlier lead but some over-elaboration was costly; however, they were well-served by superb effort out the field, with Jack Meade, Finbarr Cagney and Jack Buckley superb in defence while Jack Callaghan was a ball of energy at midfield, latching on to every break.<\/p>\n
While Newtown did keep early pace, with a long-range point from their stand-out, Tim O\u2019Mahony, and a Jamie Coughlan free tying at 0-4 each, it was the last time that parity existed.<\/p>\n
Charleville pushed again through Se\u00e1n Bresnan before Darragh Fitzgibbon was found from a quick puckout after a Newtown wide and pointed \u2013 the second time that happened \u2013 before Cagney and the excellent Zach Biggane combined for Gavin Kelleher to make it 0-7 to 0-4.<\/p>\n
The lead was 0-8 to 0-6 after 24 minutes when it looked like early Newtown sub Stephen Minihane had the cut the lead to one \u2013 however, nobody had departed and so the score was cancelled and Charleville made the most of their let-off.<\/p>\n
Paul O’Sullivan, Newtownshandrum, under pressure from David Forde and Danny O’Flynn of Charleville in the SHC.\u00a0Picture: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n
The goal came when Cathal O\u2019Carroll\u2019s lung-busting run created a goal chance for Danny O\u2019Flynn; while his shot was repelled by James Bowles, O\u2019Flynn was on the break to feed Kelleher, who crashed a shot home.<\/p>\n
A super Biggane effort was followed by a David Forde point that originated with a Meade turnover and then Biggane was the provider for Bresnan\u2019s second.<\/p>\n
Coughlan did point a couple of early Newtown frees on the restart but, while Charleville didn\u2019t have the same attacking fluency as the first half \u2013 and began to rack up wind-assisted wides \u2013 they answered those through Biggane and Callaghan and their defending ensured that no easy chances were coughed up.<\/p>\n
Approaching the three-quarter mark, Newtown looked to have found momentum as sub Turlough O\u2019Neill, O\u2019Mahony with a long-range free and then a lovely Coughlan point. Despite the more wayward shooting, Charleville didn\u2019t panic and Fitzgibbon scored his fifth with a fine effort before sub Conor Buckley marked his arrival by winning a break and firing over.<\/p>\n
That left it 1-16 to 0-13; a cheap puckout turnover did lead to Conor Griffin pointing for Newtown and then Coughlan brought the margin back to four, but Charleville gunned for the line.<\/p>\n
Great work from Conor Buckley and Cathal O\u2019Carroll led to sub Jack Doyle being fouled and Fitzgibbon pointed before Conor Buckley benefited from an O\u2019Carroll turnover. Another from Buckley made it 1-19 to 0-15 and the clock was in the red before Newtown had anything like a goal chance, Conor Reynolds saving from O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n
Another replacement, Tim Hawe, extended the lead and the final play summed up Charleville\u2019s industry \u2013 Callaghan forced one last turnover and Fitzgibbon fed sub Robert O\u2019Carroll for a huge point from his own 65, nine points in it and the end.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Charleville: D Fitzgibbon 0-7 (0-3 f), G Kelleher 1-1, Z Biggane, C Buckley 0-3 each, S Bresnan 0-2, R O’Carroll, D O’Flynn, D Forde, T Hawe, J Callaghan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Newtownshandrum: J Coughlan 0-6 (0-4 f), T O’Mahony 0-4 (0-1 f, 0-1 65), C Twomey (0-1 sl), C O’Brien, T O’Neill, C Griffin, M Ryan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n CHARLEVILLE: C Reynolds; A Dennehy, J Meade, D Butler; F Cagney, J Buckley, C O\u2019Carroll; D Casey, J Callaghan; D Fitzgibbon, S Bresnan, Z Biggane; D O\u2019Flynn, D Forde, G Kelleher.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C Buckley for Kelleher, T Hawe for Forde (both 37), J Doyle for Biggane (46), A Cagney for O\u2019Flynn (50), R O\u2019Carroll (56).<\/p>\n
\n NEWTOWNSHANDRUM: J Bowles; K O\u2019Sullivan, P O\u2019Sullivan, M Ryan; C Twomey, T O\u2019Mahony, C O\u2019Brien; B Collins, Rory Troy; J Lane, Robert Troy, D O\u2019Connor; J Coughlan, R Geary, J Geary.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: S Minihane for Rory Troy (26, injured), T O\u2019Neill for Collins, T McCarthy for Lane (both half-time), E O\u2019Mahony for Geary (38), C Griffin for Geary (50).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: P O\u2019Driscoll (Bride Rovers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charleville never trailed at any stage as victory in Sunday\u2019s north Cork derby with Newtownshandrum earned them a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1263,24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-5816","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-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}