{"id":653,"date":"2025-08-15T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:11:08","slug":"outstanding-fermoy-shock-13-man-killeagh-in-fiery-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/653\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Fermoy shock 13-man Killeagh in fiery contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fermoy: 1-16<\/p>\n

Killeagh: 3-5\u00a0<\/p>\n

A majestic performance from Fermoy as they shocked 13-man Killeagh to prevail by five points in this fiery and entertaining Co-Op SuperStores SAHC clash at Ballynoe on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

The North Cork side, who shipped four goals in their nine-point loss last time out against Carrigtwohill, were excellent here in every part of the field. This was their best performance in many years.<\/p>\n

They led by a point at the interval and a green flag six minutes into the second half gave them the cushion to keep their opposition at arms-length.<\/p>\n

They were led on by the evergreen Brian O\u2019Sullivan, who was unerring from frees, but it would be unfair to pick out one player from this heroic and dogged display.<\/p>\n

Following their gritty opening Group 1 victory over Na Piarsaigh a fortnight ago, Killeagh were off colour here with ill-discipline also playing a part. They finished with 13 players. They also only had three different scorers.<\/p>\n

It was a nervy start by Killeagh, which set the tone, with the short passing game not working as well as they would have liked against a stubborn Fermoy side.<\/p>\n

\" James Molloy, Fermoy, in action against Killeagh. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

The Avondhu team hit the first two points from a Shane Aherne effort and an O\u2019Sullivan free. Darragh O\u2019Carroll\u2019s sweeper role was proving effective for Fermoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Barry Walsh 65 was timely for Killeagh after 10 minutes. It was cancelled out by an O\u2019Sullivan free before the Imokilly team looked to have finally arrived after 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

Barry Walsh with an excellent goal, as his unstoppable effort rifled into the roof of the net to give his team the lead for the first time.<\/p>\n

The game went on for another nine minutes without anything of note before a crucial moment came with five minutes to the break when Killeagh were reduced to 14 players after Shane Smiddy received a straight red card for an altercation off the ball.<\/p>\n

Fermoy were on top for the remainder of the half with the extra player. They hit three unanswered points until a pair of Barry Walsh frees did draw up proceedings.<\/p>\n

An O\u2019Sullivan placed ball handed Fermoy a 0-7 to 1-3 half-time advantage.<\/p>\n

On the resumption, Fermoy continued from where they left off, a different free taker though, as David Lardner bisected the posts from an awkward angle.<\/p>\n

The North Cork men then rattled off 1-1 in two minutes to give them breathing space. An O\u2019Sullivan free was followed by a Darragh Daly green flag after a pass from Shane Aherne, 1-9 to 1-3 after 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

The sides traded points before Killeagh were given a lifeline when Evan Lane finished from close range after Fermoy failed to clear their lines, 1-10 to 2-4 after 43 minutes.<\/p>\n

Seconds after the goal, Killeagh were down to 13 players, substitute Colm Leahy received a straight red card for an off the ball incident.<\/p>\n

\" Midfielder Se\u00e1n Long in action for Killeagh against Fermoy. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n

It sucked the life out of Killeagh for the final quarter. Fermoy hit three of the next four points, 1-13 to 2-5 ahead with six minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

The eventual winners pointed two successive frees through goalkeeper Shane Coughlan and O\u2019Sullivan, as they were now in total control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Barry Walsh goal from a close range free cut the gap to four points after 57 minutes, 1-15 to 3-5, but time was firmly against them.<\/p>\n

An O\u2019Sullivan placed ball was the insurance score for Fermoy.<\/p>\n

A turnup for the books.<\/p>\n

Scorers for Fermoy: B O\u2019Sullivan 0-9 (0-8 f), D Daly 1-0, S Aherne 0-2, S Coughlan (f), P de R\u00f3iste, K Morrison, D Lardner (f), J Carr 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

Killeagh: B Walsh 2-4 (1-3 f, 0-1 65), E Lane 1-0, G Leahy 0-1.<\/p>\n

FERMOY: S Coughlan; G Lardner, L Aherne, B McGrath; P de R\u00f3iste, J O\u2019Brien, K Morrison; M Brennan, D Lardner; D O\u2019Carroll, B O\u2019Sullivan, P Murphy; J Molloy, S Aherne, D Daly.<\/p>\n

Subs: D O\u2019Callaghan for M Brennan (h-t), T Clancy for D O\u2019Carroll (43), J Carr for D Lardner (50), A Aherne for J Molloy (60), B Daly for D Daly (63).<\/p>\n

KILLEAGH: P O’Neill; A Keniry, P O’Brien, B Delaney; A Walsh, D Walsh, Ben Walsh; S Long, C Fitzgibbon; S Smiddy, R McCarthy, Barry Walsh; D McCarthy, R Long, E Lane.<\/p>\n

Subs: Ciar\u00e1n Leahy for A Keniry (23), Colm Leahy for R Long (h-t), G Leahy for Ciar\u00e1n Leahy (46).<\/p>\n

Referee: David Daly (Brian Dillons).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fermoy: 1-16 Killeagh: 3-5\u00a0 A majestic performance from Fermoy as they shocked 13-man Killeagh to prevail by five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-653","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\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}