SHANE O’DONNELL WAS amongst the goalscorers as UCC reached the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup this afternoon at the Mardyke with a comprehensive 5-25 to 1-6 win over St Patrick’s-Mater Dei.
The result ensured UCC topped Group A and they will advance to a home quarter-final tie next week against UCD. St Pat’s, who were reduced to 14 men early on when James Kelly was dismissed, had no answer to three-in-a-row chasing UCC and ultimately lost out by 31 points.
O’Donnell, making his first start for UCC this year as they rested Cork’s Conor Lehane, struck the first goal in the 7th minute before Willie Griffin bagged their second goal shortly after.
Rob O’Shea fired home the third goal as UCC went in front by 3-14 to 0-2 at half-time. Second-half goals by Griffin and a superb solo effort from defender Pat O’Sullivan helped UCC copperfasten their victory. St Pat’s struck a late goal through Eoin O’Neill yet UCC ran out comfortable victors.
Progress
Waterford IT also clinched their place in the last eight as they defeated Carlow IT by 0-25 to 1-16 in Carriganore.
WIT finished runner-up in Group A and they will be away to Dublin IT at the quarter-final stage next week. The winners lead by 0-13 to 1-9 at half-time with Stephen Maher shining in the scoring stakes for Carlow IT while Kevin Kelly raised their green flag.
Waterford senior duo Pauric Mahony and Jake Dillon dominated the scoring in the second-half to enable WIT to pull clear and win by six points.
Results
Fitzgibbon Cup
Group A
UCC 5-25 St Pat’s Mater-Dei 1-6
Waterford IT 0-25 Carlow IT 1-16
He’s right. And its annoying the way Klopp is treated by the English media like the second coming of Jebus just coz he’s a “right on” guy, but hasn’t actually achieved anything yet
In fairness to Klopp, he has managed to turn a bang average squad into title challengers while maintaining an entertaining style of play.
The high tempo style may cost them in the run in though with tiring legs and all that.
Did he not win the Bundesliga twice and get to a champions league final with Dortmund?
What with one game a week most weeks ?? Behave!
Mark, I think he was talking not achieving anything at Liverpool yet.
Of course Liverpool won,t the league, thats not their thing. Might top league for a couple of weeks then top clubs take over at the business end of things
No $hit sherlock !!!
Only saying what Klopp has already said himself. Would require too many good teams to have extended bad runs as it stands, and with the weaknesses in the squad he inherited. The likes of Matip, Klavern (and even Mane) will be better next season.. But when you see how well some of the new players have integrated already, and then the improvement in for for the like of Lallana, whatever about winning PL titles he’s certainly building a formidable LFC challenge to other contenders….
Next year is Liverpools year
@Irishoversea: don’t know about that but certainly with Klopp at the helm, and extra revenue from 15,000 extra bums on seats there is every possibility that LFC will be consistently contending for major honours over the next couple of seasons.
Reality is only one team can win every year, so even with all the improvements you still need a big dollop of luck (injuries, schedul etc..) to pick up the silverware…
Nothing brings out the idiots better than a Liverpool thread….. Beating there chests when there own team is beating up nobodies, much with the help of terrible officiating…..
“their”
@Aaron Hynes: yes, your right. Great accomplishment.
@William Kavanagh: you’re
ah dave don’t resort to that nonesence
*Nonsense* couldn’t resist!