Ballygiblin (Cork) 1-16
Easkey (Sligo) 0-11
ONE OF THE quickest goals ever scored in Croke Park sent Ballygiblin on their way to AIB All-Ireland Junior club hurling glory against a valiant Easkey side.
Defeated last year by Mooncoin, Darragh Flynn’s major after just nine seconds made sure the Cork men finally made certain of glory at the second time of asking.
In the build up to that blistering opener, former AFL player and current Cork hurler Mark Keane really set the tone, scorching down the centre from the throw-in to lay off to goalscorer Flynn.
The 12 months of pent-up hurt was dissolved in that lightning start and there was more to come.
Easkey were shaken but thanks to Andrew Kilcullen were not stirred. The Sligo star responded and kept his side in touch in the final throughout.
Kilcullen and impressive Joe McHugh in fact pulled it back to three points but that was as close as it got for the Connacht men.
After the break, Joe O’Sullivan landed three scores in a row to firmly sway the contest in the way of the two time finalists.
In a one-sided finish, Cork football panelist Cathail O’Mahony also caught the eye after the break with two stunning scores near the sideline.
Scorers for Ballygiblin: Joe O’Sullivan 0-10 (5f, 165’) Darragh Flynn 1-0, Cathail O’Mahony 0-3, Shane Beston 0-2, Dean Barry 0-1.
Scorers for Easkey: Andrew Kilcullen 0-5 (3f), Joe McHugh 0-2, Rory McHugh 0-1, Mikey Gordon 0-1, Dónall Hanley 0-1 and Thomas Cawley 0-1.
Ballygiblin:
1. Christopher Noonan
2. Lorcan Finn, 3. Fionn Herlihy, 4. James Mullins
7. Micheal Lewis, 6. Mark Keane, 5. Barry Coffey
8. Ryan Donegan, 9. Killian Roche
15. Dean Barry, 10. Darragh Flynn, 12. Shane Beston
11. Joe O’Sullivan, 14. Seán O’Sullivan, 13. Cathail O’Mahony
Subs: 20. Kieran Duggan for Barry (34), 21. Dillon Sheehan for S O’Sullivan (55), 24. Patrick Molloy for Beston (60), 22. Aaron O’Brien for Roche (62), 17. Cian O’Brien for Finn (63)
Easkey:
1. Jimmy Gordon
3. James Weir, 6. Eoghan Rua McGowan, 4. Shane Molloy
5. Ronan Molloy, 9. Niall Kilcullen, 10. Rory McHugh
8. Finnian Cawley, 7. Dónall Hanley
13. Fionn Moylan, 11. Mikey Gordon, 12. Thomas Cawley
2. Fionn Connolly, 15. Joe McHugh, 14. Andrew Kilcullen
Subs: 19. Gavin Connolly for Hanley (46), 18 Éanna Moylan for Moylan (51), 17. Bernard Feeney for S Molloy (55), 22. Luke Reddy for R Molloy (61), 26. Thomas Rolston for F Cawley (64)
Referee: Caymon Flynn (St. Loman’s)
A Dublin team with everyone making themselves available to the team,will be a very dangerous team. And only a good thing for hurling. Next year you could have 4 teams in Leinster and be 5 teams in Munster that on anyones day could beat eachother.
@Jack Fogarty: you could possibly have 6 teams in Munster if it wasn’t for jackasses like yer man above.
Sorry Ger, but you’re just embarrassing yourself. And I don’t even like Dublin.
@Eoin Nolan: fu€k you
@Ger Martin: The truth hurts doesn’t it sweetheart?
@Ciara Baines: nope
I actually don’t give a fu€k what you think
I told the truth there and that’s why you are responding through bitterness
All you Dublin ponses are all the same
Take you out of the city in any direction and there will be traffic chaos as it’s like rabbits caught in headlights
Ha ha €unts all of ye
@Ger Martin: hahahahahahahahahahahahaha thanks for not disappointing Geraldine.
@Ger Martin: hahaha, no arguing with that!!!! Good man.
They will win fu€k all
The gaa will pump a load of money in as usual to have a manufactured team trying to play a traditional game against the lads that uts bred into since they came out of the cradle
And also with a fella that knows no more about hurling than a pig knows about having a holiday
You will see a glass eye growing out if a tom cats arse before you will see that crowd winning a championship
@Ger Martin: I take it you dont like the Dubs Ger
@Ger Martin: what about the nucleus
@Ger Lyons: the nucleus could do it
@Mervyn Queally: fu€k them
The dubs think the whole world revolves around them and everyone should bow down to them
I hope the piss is hammered out of them in every game they play
@Ger Martin: gilroy played both hurling and football with vinnys ya fool. All the lads who dropped off the panal will come back in. He led the footballers to the 1st sam maguire in 16 yrs im sure hes gonna have a huge impact on the hurlers.
To be fair, it’s comments like this that convince us how bloody thick the rest of the country is.
@ryan o sullivan: he led them
It’s you that’s the fool you fu€kin pri€k
Kerry fu€kin handed it to them
So what if he played club hurling with the vinnies you Dublin fu€kin ponse
That doesn’t make him an inter county manager
And as for being a player he wasn’t worth one bucket of goats shit you €unt
@BlueMagic: it’s a gas rant to read all the same, amazed he could post the comments before his exploded from all that Dublin hatred
@Ger Martin: Someone has serious anger issues. Get a great laugh out of your posts though so thanks for the giggles!
@Ger Martin: your comments are mighty, best laugh ive had on here in ages. We will beat the dubs for ya in SHC first round next year.
@Ciara Baines: fu€k you toots
Suck my dick
@Ger Martin: Doubt you even have one pet! At least not till you pass puberty.