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Noah Ryan of Kinsale puts the pressure on Adam McCarthy of Cobh. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\nCobh: 1-11 (1-1-9)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kinsale: 0-3 (0-0-3)\u00a0<\/p>\n
A slicker Cobh side breezed past Kinsale in the McCarthy Insurance Group Premier JFC clash at Ovens on Friday night.<\/p>\n
This Group 2 Round 3 tie was a winner-takes-all contest with the men from Imokilly leading from pillar to post in this one.<\/p>\n
The foundation for their win was done in the opening 30 minutes, leading by six points at one juncture in a half where it took 24 minutes for Kinsale to get up and running.<\/p>\n
The winners never at any stage looked in trouble in what was pretty much a training exercise in the second half for them in a game that meant so much to both teams.<\/p>\n
It took Kinsale 29 minutes into the second half to get their first and only score of the half.<\/p>\n
The game was played in difficult weather conditions with driving rain on a frequent basis. It made the performance from the men from East Cork more impressive.<\/p>\n
Cobh will now meet last year\u2019s County JAFC winners Inniscarra in the quarter-finals in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n
Noah Ryan of Kinsale puts the pressure on Adam McCarthy of Cobh. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n
They handled the conditions better from the minute referee Luke Knight threw in the ball. Jack Ronan, Timmy Wilk and a Diarmuid Kearney free registered points inside four minutes.<\/p>\n
Fionn Duggan landed a two-pointer for Cobh before the forward set up Adam McCarthy for a great goal chance, but it was deflected away from danger.<\/p>\n
Forward Noah Ryan did go off for a short period for Kinsale, which didn\u2019t help their cause, but they were starved of possession with Wilk, Mark O\u2019Rourke and George Keating dominating around the midfield area for Cobh.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Rourke pushed Cobh 0-6 to 0-0 clear after 16 minutes. They wouldn\u2019t score again for another 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
In Kinsale\u2019s second scoring opportunity, they got their first score after 24 minutes when Michael Murphy converted a close range free. It was followed a minute later by a nice point from Cork U20 footballer Gear\u00f3id Kearney.<\/p>\n
Cobh did get the last score of the half as weather conditions deteriorated, Diarmuid Kearney landing a free, 0-7 to 0-2 at half-time.<\/p>\n
A pair of Ronan efforts gave Cobh a comfortable advantage as they remained in control with 22 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
There was no wind of note, it was just the fact that the Imokilly team were far superior.<\/p>\n
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Conor Fitzpatrick of Kinsale tries to shake off Mark O’Rourke of Cobh. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n
They effectively put the game to bed after 43 minutes when Adam Lynch\u2019s goal-bound shot fell nicely for sub Darragh Burke to finish to the net, 1-9 to 0-2.<\/p>\n
It was a low-scoring second half, which suited Cobh. A Diarmuid Kearney effort and a free from sub Darragh Heelan pushed Cobh 12 points clear.<\/p>\n
Kinsale finally got their first and only score of the second 30 minutes through a Michael Murphy free after 59 minutes, 1-11 to 0-3.<\/p>\n
They bow out, but Cobh power on.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Cobh: D Kearney (0-2 f), J Ronan 0-3 each, D Burke 1-0, F Duggan 0-2 (1 2pt), T Wilk, D Heelan (f), M O\u2019Rourke 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Kinsale: M Murphy 0-2 f, G Kearney 0-1.<\/p>\n
COBH: E Walsh; A Stanton, B Geary, A McCarthy; T Wilk, C McLoughlin, S Cummins; M O\u2019Rourke, G Keating; A Hastings, F Duggan, D Kearney; A Lynch, J Ronan, E Hastings.<\/p>\n
Subs: D Heelan for E Hastings (29, inj), D Burke for A Hastings (h-t), N O\u2019Connell for J Ronan (47).<\/p>\n
KINSALE: S O’Neill; D O’Leary, K O\u2019Callaghan, C O’Leary; C Fitzpatrick, N McCarthy, C McCarthy; D Looney, J Murphy; B Coughlan, G Kearney, H Sheehan; N Ryan, M Murphy, B O’Neill.<\/p>\n
Subs: J Byrne for N Ryan (14-30, temp), J Byrne for H Sheehan (38), C Sheehan for B Coughlan (50), D Coughlan for J Murphy (57).<\/p>\n
Referee: Luke Knight (Kilmurry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cobh: 1-11 (1-1-9)\u00a0 Kinsale: 0-3 (0-0-3)\u00a0 A slicker Cobh side breezed past Kinsale in the McCarthy Insurance Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-60845","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60845","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=60845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}