Month: September 2021

Clare 0-17
Tipperary 3-21

Eoin Brennan reports from Cusack Park

TIPPERARY’S DEVASTATING RUN through Munster continued unabated this afternoon after putting Clare to the sword in ruthless fashion to effectively ensure their passage to a first provincial decider since 2016.

Clare’s perfect home record in the new championship format was essentially shattered by timely goals through Noel McGrath, Seamus Callanan and Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher by the 49th minute to soar 13 points clear, a chasm that they would hold until the finish.

Indeed, McGrath’s pulled goal in the 21st minute provided the spark to finally ignite Tipperary’s challenge as from there to the finish, they would outscore a flagging Banner by 2-14 to 0-11, with only two of Clare’s points stemming from play.

Up to that opening major, the sides had gone blow-for-blow on five occasions but with the wind at their backs, a buoyant Tipperary would up the ante considerably for the remainder of the half, with the McGrath brothers John (3) and Noel (2) helping their side to a 1-14 to 0-11 cushion by the break.

Patrick Maher and Seamus Callanan with Cathal Malone of Clare.

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Any hopes of a home rebellion were quashed only five minutes into the new half when Seamus Callanan profited from a slice of fortune when Jason Forde’s 60 metre free cannoned off the upright to crash the rebound to the net.

Nine minutes later, Patrick Maher outpaced Clare’s last line to effectively finish the game as a contest at 3-16 to 0-12.

A disappointing home side never recovered, with their afternoon epitomised by the treble withdrawal of usual chief threats Peter Duggan, John Conlon and Shane O’Donnell.

Instead, Tipperary matched anything a deflated Banner could throw at them for the final 20 minutes as they impressively took their scoring tally to the 100 point mark after only three outings to assure their place in the All-Ireland series at a minimum.

Scorers for Tipperary: Jason Forde 0-7 (7f); John McGrath 0-6; Noel McGrath 1-2, Seamus Callanan, Patrick Maher 1-2 each; John O’Dwyer, Brendan Maher 0-1 each

Scorers for Clare: Peter Duggan 0-9 (8f); Tony Kelly 0-3 (2f); Diarmuid Ryan, Podge Collins, David Fitzgerald, Shane Golden, Aidan McCarthy 0-1 each

Tipperary

1. Brian Hogan (Lorrha-Dorrha)

2. Cathal Barrett (Holycross-Ballycahill)
20. Barry Heffernan (Nenagh Éire Óg)
7. Alan Flynn (Kiladangan)

4. Ronan Maher (Thurles Sarsfields)
5. Brendan Maher (Borris-Ileigh)
6. Padraic Maher (Thurles Sarsfields)

8. Noel McGrath (Loughmore-Castleiney)
9. Michael Breen (Ballina)

23. Dan McCormack (Borris-Ileigh)
11. John O’Dwyer (Killenaule)
12. Patrick Maher (Lorrha-Dorrha)

10. Jason Forde (Silvermines)
14. Séamus Callanan (Drom-Inch) (Captain)
13. John McGrath (Loughmore-Castleiney)

Subs:
19. Willie Connors (Kiladangan) for Breen (55)
25. Jake Morris (Nenagh Éire Óg) for O’Dwyer (60)
18. Robert Byrne (Portroe) for R. Maher (66)
17. Ger Browne (Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams) for McCormack (68)

Clare

1. Donal Tuohy (Crusheen)

4. Seadna Morey (Sixmilebridge)
2. Patrick O’Connor (Tubber) (Captain)
3. David McInerney (Tulla)

5. Cathal Malone (Sixmilebridge)
6. Jack Browne (Ballyea)
7. David Fitzgerald (Inagh-Kilnamona)

8. Shane Golden (Sixmilebridge)
9. Colm Galvin (Clonlara)

10. Peter Duggan (Clooney-Quin)
11. Tony Kelly (Ballyea)
12. Diarmuid Ryan (Cratloe)

15. Podge Collins (Cratloe)
14. John Conlon (Clonlara)
13. Shane O’Donnell (Éire Óg)

Subs:
22. Conor Cleary (St. Joseph’s Miltown) for Morey (52)
18. Aidan McCarthy (Inagh-Kilnamona) for Duggan (57)
19. Gary Cooney (O’Callaghan’s Mills) for Conlon (59)
24. Aron Shanagher (Wolfe Tones) for O’Donnell (64)
21. Ryan Taylor (Clooney-Quin) for Golden (67)

Referee: Alan Kelly (Galway)

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Armagh 1-14
Cavan 0-17

Declan Bogue reports at Clones

ARMAGH AND CAVAN played like there was a safety net here in the old venue and it made for a truly thrilling spectacle.

Heaven knows what it looked like on the TV monitors of the taste makers, but when you are in the middle of the swirling mass of incidents, boos and cheers, this is the reason you watch sport.

If it were a boxing match, you suspect Cavan might have won on points. But there was a stage here where Armagh were three points up and Cavan had Ciaran Brady sent off for swinging an arm back at Armagh defender Mark Shields.

And yet, as it had so many times this season — against Kildare and Clare in the league where they blew leads to draw games, and against Down a fortnight ago in the Championship when it seemed they might cruise home going into the final stretch five points up — it happened all over again.

Cian Mackey’s introduction offered Cavan a lifeline. Along with fellow sub Stephen Murray they kicked a brace of points each in the second half to force this to extra-time.

The extra-time was a pure pig of a contest. Neither side were willing to make a mistake but Armagh grabbed the initiative with a Stefan Campbell fisted point.

Then they made the cardinal sin of trying to defend a one-point lead. They sat back and tried to run down the clock. Cavan forced the turnover and Mackey struck again for his third point and the equaliser.

All back again next Sunday.

Scorers for Armagh: J Óg Burns 1-2, R O’Neill 0-4, 3f, A Nugent 0-2, P Hughes, A Forker, J Hall, S Campbell, J McElroy 0-1 each, J Clarke 0-1f

Scorers for Cavan: N Murray 0-5, 4f, C Mackey 0-3, S Murray, D McVeety 0-2 each, G McKiernan 0-2f, C Conroy, C Moynagh, G Smith 0-1 each.

Armagh: B Hughes; R Kennedy, B Donaghy, P Hughes; M Shields, J Morgan, A Forker; N Grimley, J Óg Burns; J Hall, R Grugan, A Nugent; S Campbell, R O’Neill, J Clarke

Subs: J McElroy for Morgan (23), E Rafferty for Campbell (58), A Murnin for Grugan (65), N Rowland for Forker (70), B Crealey for Nugent (73)

Extra-Time: J Morgan back on to make 15. C Vernon for Burns (2), Campbell for Rafferty (10)

Cavan: R Galligan; J McLoughlin, P Faulkner, C Moynagh; G Smith, K Clarke, C Rehill; C Brady, G McKiernan; M Reilly, D McVeety, N Murray; O Kiernan, T Galligan, C Madden

Subs: Ciaran Brady for Faulkner (28 – Black card), C Conroy for Smith (30), C Mackey for Madden (46), S Murray for Conor Brady (53), O Pierson for T Galligan (73)

Extra-Time: Paul Graham on to make 15. J Brady for N Murray (10), B Fortune for Moynagh (14 – Black card), C Madden for Kiernan (17)

Referee: Derek O’Mahoney (Tipperary)

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DONAL ÓG CUSACK believes a major review is needed for Waterford following their 2-25 to 0-10 hammering at the hands of Limerick in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship on Sunday.

The defending All-Ireland champions provided an emphatic response to their defeat against Cork a fortnight ago, notching an impressive 20-point victory at Walsh Park with the Déise reduced to 14 men following the dismissal of Pauric Mahony.

“Their form has been atrocious,” Óg Cusack said speaking in the wake of Waterford’s heavy defeat. “Since the 2017 All-Ireland final they have been on a losing streak.

“It’s going to be extremely hard to pick it up. I think there’s a major review needed in the Waterford set-up and as a total — not just on the field.

“They’ve some fantastic players. A good friend of mine has been involved with UCC for the last number of years and he has been continuously telling me that the best young players there are from Waterford.

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— The Sunday Game (@TheSundayGame) June 2, 2019

“I think someone needs to go,” he added.

“I know from a player’s point of view when you believe so much in a management and if you think that the new management that’s come in aren’t going to advance you.

“It’s like if you did a degree and you wanted to push on and do a Master’s or a PhD that you’re possibly being brought back to secondary school.

“That can happen and that perception can exist. When that happens there’s big trouble in the camp.”

Sunday’s loss was Pauric Fanning’s third consecutive championship defeat this year, as the 2017 All-Ireland finalists face the prospect of an early Munster exit for the second season in a row.

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AFTER ANOTHER WEEKEND of exciting action with the big ball which featured more standout championship clashes, Pat Spillane believes football has been the superior code so far this summer.

Speaking on The Sunday Game after re-living Cavan and Armagh’s thrilling Ulster semi-final draw in Clones, the Kerry great said gaelic football matches had trumped their hurling counterparts a month into the 2019 championship campaign.

“I think, in terms of quality, it’s the best I’ve seen in 10 or 12 years,” Spillane said. “It’s been absolutely superb. We had Cavan vs Monaghan, we had Down vs Armagh, and today we had this game — an absolutely superb contest.”

Cavan were vying for their first Ulster final spot in 18 years, while Armagh were looking to make their return to the showpiece for the first time since 2008.

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Second half introductions Cian Mackey and Stephen Murray kicked a late pair of points each to offer Cavan a lifeline, forcing extra-time at St. Tiernach’s Park where nothing could separate the sides in a pulsating affair.

“Do you know what? Whisper it quietly, the gaelic football championship this year has probably given us better quality, more entertaining more intense games than the hurling,” added Spillane, who even appreciated an attritional affair last weekend between Fermanagh and Donegal.

“Maybe I’m going soft in my old age, but I enjoyed it,” he said when probed about the clash at Brewster Park which saw Declan Bonner’s men prevail by six points.

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JACKIE TYRRELL HAS slammed the performance of the Clare hurlers, who suffered a 13-point defeat to Tipperary in the Munster SHC on Sunday.

After a competitive start to the game, Clare struggled to impose themselves on the clash at Cusack Park where Tipperary picked up their third victory in the competition.

They conceded three goals throughout the tie and were reliant on Peter Duggan’s frees to keep their scoreboard moving.

It was their first loss of the 2019 Munster campaign, and they will now face into tough outings against Limerick and Cork in the last two rounds of the series.

“Tipp were totally ruthless in the second half,” Tyrrell said on the Sunday Game after the final whistle.

“Clare were at sixes and sevens, totally out of their depth. It was like a good senior team against a bad junior team, it was that bad for Clare.

“After the goal in the second half, it was over. Clare never raised a gallop, never put any fight up. No leaders stepped up, so it’s just a really bad day for Clare.”

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The former Kilkenny star added that the Banner failed to bring any fight to the game on their home turf.

“I wouldn’t say too many of the Tipp lads have any bruises or a bit of sweat on them at all.

It was so, so bad. If I was a Clare player, I’d actually be embarrassed walking off. I’d be embarrassed going to work tomorrow because it was that lacklustre.

“There was no cut and thrust to them. They had the breeze in the second half — have a go. You’re in your fortress where you have this record of winning 18 of the last 20 games. But I just didn’t see it.

“It was just so feeble and weak.” 

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KILKENNY GOALKEEPER EOIN Murphy has admitted he was concerned that he had suffered a serious long-term injury when damaging his knee in a club game in April.

Murphy was hit by the injury setback while in action for Glenmore and while it has transpired not to be as severe, he is still unsure of when he will be back in action.

A winner of an All-Star award for the second time in 2018, Murphy had missed Kilkenny’s opening round championship victories over Dublin and Carlow.

“I broke the top of the tibia. I’m off the crutches a week and a half and done a light bit of jogging yesterday. It’s a little bit stiff today. It’s the first time I’ve done anything in six or seven weeks.

“It’s just a progression thing then. There’s no real time frame on it. Where it’s broke, it’s a load-bearing bone. You start off with the jogging and you start increasing it if there’s no injury then.

“Just the severity of the pain, you knew it was something different. When they were coming in and doing a few checks on it, it was extremely sore. It wasn’t comfortable doing those at all.

“I met one of the physios that evening. He did the cruciate test and that was OK. Then after that, we couldn’t really tell if the patella tendon was hurt or damaged in any way. There was a bit of fluid gone into it. There was worry there with the swelling and fluid, I couldn’t get it scanned for a week or so. 

“That week, you’re in a bit of limbo. You see the boys ramping up the training and it is hard. You can’t be going in wallowing in self-pity if you’re number one or number 40 on the panel, you’re equally important to the morale and the spirit. 

“There was a couple of hours when I was told the tibia was broken and had to see a specialist about how bad it was. I felt bad for myself for half-an-hour but then it was like, ‘Feck it, there’s nothing I can do, just drive on with recovery and get back as soon as I can’.

“I’m delighted to be back, even from a mental point of view. Delighted to be back with the lads. But I’m still in a pair of runners, and I probably will be for the next week or two.”

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Murphy will definitely be watching on for Kilkenny’s remaining Leinster round-robin games against Galway next Sunday in Nowlan Park and the away trip to Wexford on 15 June.

With the new provincial championship structure, he is a perfect example of how players can find their summer curtailed by the unfortunate timing of an injury.

“It was sort of a twist with a hyper-extension involved so I was lucky I didn’t do any other damage to it. There’s a silver lining to everything, but it’s not an ideal time to be injured, it’s going to be hard to get the pace back now.

“You don’t want to be missing games. You don’t want to be injured anyway, but you don’t want to be missing games. That’s the way it’s gone now with the inter-county season, if you do pick up a knock now or anything like that, you could miss three quarters of it. There are a big couple of games coming up now.”

The goalkeeper will not be the only leading light on the injury list for next Sunday’s tie. Galway continue to operate without their attacking talisman Joe Canning.

“Joe has been the best player in the country over the last couple of years. He won Hurler of the Year two years ago. He was probably unlucky not to win it last year, some people would say he had an even better year last year.

“A player of that calibre, he is going to be missed. You see the players they still have, if you go through their six forwards, they’d get on most inter-county teams across the country.

“They do have a good panel there. Their underage set-ups for the last 10 or 15 years with Mattie Murphy involved have been phenomenal. I’m not going to say he’s not going to be missed. he certainly will be. They have brilliant players to step up to the mark there. I have not doubt that they will, we’ll need to be on top of our game.”

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Away from Kilkenny matters, Murphy frequently tunes in to other hurling showdowns. He played at college level in WIT with a collection of established Waterford players like Stephen O’Keeffe and Pauric Mahony, captaining a team to Fitzgibbon Cup glory in 2014.

Eoin Murphy lifts the Fitzgibbon Cup in Belfast in 2014.

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Is he surprised by the slump the Deise side are currently enduring in Munster?

“Definitely. I would have hurled with a lot of them lads in WIT. You know, your home games are absolutely massive, they’re vital for setting out a good stall. It was massive for the whole county to have the two home games in Walsh Park this year.

“Like, a puck of the ball and they could have come out the other side of the result against Clare and their season could have taken off. There’s massive quality down there, I just don’t know, a small thing against Clare and their season could have been completely different.”

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YEAR ONE SAW him light up the senior Gaelic football landscape, year two began on Saturday evening for David Clifford with the task of trying to match that high bar he had set for himself. 

The 20-year-old picked off 0-3 in Ennis as Kerry got their 2019 summer up and running.

Amidst a blaze of hype after his underage and schools exploits, he began last summer on the adult beat and packed a fair bit into his debut offering. A Munster medal was picked up in June and while Kerry bowed out of the Super 8s, Clifford was in dazzling form as he amassed 4-14 in three games with the goal he squeezed in to salvage a draw in Clones providing confirmation of his value to the Kingdom cause. 

Now the challenge is to maintain those standards but he arrives in this championship in a refreshed state. The winter was spent repairing a damaged shoulder and he was nursed back to full fitness in the spring. The comeback took place toward the tail end of Kerry’s league campaign, a Croke Park final with Mayo a major occasion to grace.

And the hope is that he can reap the rewards of some downtime from playing.

“I was itching to get back,” outlines Clifford.

“Obviously the league final probably didn’t go as we’d have liked it. It was great to get a bit of football into me before the championship.

“I played three or four league games for the club in April as well so they were massive just getting a bit of football under my belt. So yeah the body’s perfect thank God.

“It was nice to get a prolonged break, between club football and everything it was nice to get an extended pre-season to work on everything. Just to put a bit of extra focus into everything in my game, that was great.”

David Clifford in action for Kerry against Mayo in the Division 1 league final.

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Clifford may have settled impressively to the demands of the inter-county game last summer but he is keen to credit those who helped him find his feet.

“The experienced players are great and just basically showing you the ropes.

“The likes of Kieran Donaghy and I used to travel to a lot of training (sessions) with Kevin McCarthy, he’d been on the panel for a few years before it. So they were very big, basically just telling you what was in store.

“I suppose whether a session is going to be tough or not, what we’re going to be doing for the next two or three weeks, maybe bit of advice here or there if you did something well, maybe something they thought you could work on. It was great to have fellas like them there.”

Kerry ran out six-point winners over Clare in Saturday’s semi-final but it wasn’t a blinding performance in their opener as their scoreboard advantage was whittled away in the second half.

“Clare got a massive foothold around the middle,” outlined Clifford.

“Gary Brennan played across and had a massive impact on it, a player like him I suppose is always going to have an impact on a game so just trying to limit him really to what damage he can do.

“Probably a few different reasons. I don’t know, we just seemed to get a bit sloppy. But I suppose it’s always good to have a bit of room for improvement and something to work on.”

David Clifford hit 0-3 in Kerry’s win over Clare on Saturday in Ennis.

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Next up Kerry renew acquaintances with Cork after swatting them aside when the teams met in last year’s Munster decider.

“Cork had a massive win. As you can see with Tipperary in the hurling, they probably didn’t have a brain-storming league but they’ve been unbelievable so far in the championship.

“So it’s very hard to know what you’re going to get with teams until you see them in the championship so it’ll be a massive challenge now going to Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

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“It’s always tough when you’re going in to another team’s backyard so it just adds to the challenge again I think.”

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DUBLIN FORWARD PAUL Mannion is free to play in Sunday’s Leinster SFC semi-final against Kildare after his one-game suspension was overturned at a CHC hearing last night. 

Mannion received a straight red card during the first-half of Dublin’s quarter-final win over Louth for a high challenge on Conal McKeever.

He was hit with an automatic one-game ban and Dublin requested a hearing, with the alleged infraction of “behaving in a way which is dangerous to an opponent” not proven. 

Meanwhile, Armagh’s Brendan Donaghy will miss their Ulster semi-final replay against Cavan after his one-match suspension was upheld by the CHC.

The defender received a red card near full-time of the drawn game for dropping his knee on Cavan’s Killian Clarke as he lay on the ground. Donaghy has the option of appealing the decision to the CAC.

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MICKEY HARTE MAKES two changes to the Tyrone team as last year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists bid to book their place in another Ulster decider.

Michael McKernan is named to start Saturday’s semi-final against Donegal at corner-back (throw-in 5pm, BBC) and Connor McAliskey gets the nod at corner-forward.

Hugh Pat McGeary and Rory Brennan are the two set to miss out from the starting XV which beat Antrim a fortnight ago.

The Red Hand were provincial champions in 2016 and again in 2017, but their three-in-a-row bid was derailed by Monaghan in the Ulster quarter-finals last year.

Tyrone had their revenge on their northern neighbours before the summer was out, beating Monaghan in the All-Ireland semi-finals before ultimately coming up short against champions Dublin. 

Tyrone (SF v Donegal)

1. Niall Morgan (Edendork)

2. Padraig Hampsey (Coalisland)
3. Ronan McNamee (Aghyaran)
4. Michael McKernan (Coalisland)

5. Tiernan McCann (Killyclogher)
6. Ben McDonnell (Errigal Ciaran)
7. Michael Cassidy (Ardboe)

8. Colm Cavanagh (Moy)
9. Richard Donnelly (Trillick)

10. Matthew Donnelly (Trillick)
11. Niall Sludden (Dromore)
12. Frank Burns (Pomeroy)

13. Cathal McShane (Owen Roe’s)
14. Peter Harte (Errigal Ciaran)
15. Connor McAliskey (Clonoe)

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