{"id":62843,"date":"2025-09-14T03:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62843\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:30:11","slug":"aghabullogue-defeat-aghada-but-both-clubs-into-pifc-last-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62843\/","title":{"rendered":"Aghabullogue defeat Aghada but both clubs into PIFC last six"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aghabullogue 1-13 (1-2-9) Aghada 0-10 (0-3-4)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

Despite a late scare, Aghabullogue saw off Aghada in a highly-charged McCarthy Insurance Premier Intermediate Football Championship tie at Ballincollig.<\/p>\n

Aghabullogue had many solid performers but once again the scoring talent of Luke Casey, who finished with an impressive 1-4 from play, led their charge.<\/p>\n

The tenacity shown by Aghada in the opening exchanges was extraordinary as they won the majority of possession that yielded points from Diarmuid Byrne and Cian Hegarty after four minutes.<\/p>\n

Aghabullogue looked to be struggling with the press and aggression shown by their opponents and it took them 12 minutes to get a foot in the game courtesy of a point from the boot of Evan O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n

It only took them a minute to level proceedings with a classy Aaron O\u2019Sullivan point as they suddenly looked a team in ascendency.<\/p>\n

A two-pointer from captain John Corkery midway through the half has their fans in rapture and a minute later they punished Aghada with a goal of sheer class.<\/p>\n

A pinpoint pass towards corner forward Luke Casey saw the Agabullogue talisman round his man with ease before finding the net with a thunderous shot.<\/p>\n

After going 23 minutes without a score, the Aghada drought ended with points from Hegarty and James Hanlon.<\/p>\n

In the final kick of the half, Hegarty nailed a two-pointer that reduced the deficit to three points at the interval, 1-6 to 0-6.<\/p>\n

\" Pauric O’Sullivan and Matthew Bradley, Aghabullogue, hold off Cian Hegarty, Aghada. Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

Credit to both teams, the tempo increased on the restart and three consecutive points from Aghabullogue in the opening 10 minutes put them back in pole position.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, Aghada could have easily folded and although it took them 12 minutes to score it was a stunning two-pointer from Hegarty, his second of the game. Suddenly, Aghada looked a side with a new lease of life and when substitute Jack Norris nailed their third two-pointer the deficit was reduced to five points.<\/p>\n

The Aghada veteran Pearse O\u2019Neill was battling like a trojan and when another substitute Scott White was hauled down by Conor Smith a penalty was awarded, and a black card issued to the corner-back. The resultant penalty was missed by James O\u2019Hanlon though.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And when Tim Hartnett hit the post in the final minute, Aghada knew it wasn\u2019t going to be their night. However, with results going their way, they managed to book a quarter-final berth on total scoring tally, despite only winning one group game.<\/p>\n

A late Mathew Bradley free sealed the deal for Aghabullogue as they kept their unbeaten run intact after a highly entertaining encounter.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Aghabullogue: L Casey 1-4, E O\u2019Sullivan 0-4 (0-2f), J Corkery 0-2 (2pt), M Bradley 0-2 f, A O\u2019Sullivan 0-1.<\/p>\n

\n Aghada: C Hegarty 0-6 (2-2pt), J Norris 0-2 (2pt), D Byrne, J Hanlon 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n AGHABULLOGUE: J Buckley; C Smith, D Merrick, T Long; P Ring, S Tarrant, B O\u2019Sullivan; C Gillespie, A Murphy; A O\u2019Sullivan, J Corkery, P O\u2019Sullivan; M Bradley, E O\u2019Sullivan, L Casey.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: O O\u2019Connell for B O\u2019Sullivan (inj 16), C O\u2019Sullivan for P O\u2019Sullivan (49), P Dilworth for A O\u2019Sullivan (56).<\/p>\n

\n AGHADA: C O\u2019Shea; E Leahy, J Colbert, K O\u2019Shea; J Tynan, J O\u2019Donoghue, R Murphy; D Phelan, C Hegarty; D Byrne, T Hartnett, S Manley; S Morrissey, J O\u2019Hanlon, P O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: S White for S Moloney (38), C O\u2019Driscoll for J Tynan (46), J Norris for R Murphy (46).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: Brian Crowley (Castlehaven).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aghabullogue 1-13 (1-2-9) Aghada 0-10 (0-3-4)\u00a0 Despite a late scare, Aghabullogue saw off Aghada in a highly-charged McCarthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-62843","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\/62843","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=62843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}