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Post by kerryexile5 on Jan 9, 2022 20:13:17 GMT
Leinster final between Naas and Oylgate of Wexford to be played yet. Toreen of Mayo are in the semi final having won out in Connacht. Banagher of Derry are representing Ulster Isn’t that very strange. A Kerry club winning Munster, a Mayo club winning Connacht (instead of a Galway club) and the chance of a Kildare club winning Leinster. I know it’s these counties’ Senior winners but still amazing to see. Could be in a position where no Liam McCarthy cup county have a club left in the intermediate championship. It used to be Kilkenny teams walking the intermediate title in Leinster but ever since Mount Leinster Rangers won it other teams have came to the fore. Banagher of Derry will be a tough Ulster outfit, but the Munster championship will definitely stand to Kilmoyley in two weeks. To see a tiny club like Kilmoyley contesting an All Ireland final in Croke Park would be some achievement! |
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Post by mossie on Jan 9, 2022 20:38:40 GMT
The Kilmoyley match with Courcey Rovers was just an epic encounter, as good a hurling encounter as any GAA fan could wish to attend
It was physical, hard but fair and boy what passion from both teams, some of the points scored were of the highest quality and the skill level of the Kerry champions in some of those scores was on a par with the champion of any hurling county
It is fair to say Kilmoyley looked a beaten docket when they trailed by 4 points with about 6 mins left but somehow they rallied with 4 unanswered points. As they reeled in the 4 point lead, it was almost as their vocal supporters got them there and Kilmoyley left the pitch at full time of normal time to such a roar that you felt history could just be made before the evening was out. In extra time, Kilmoyley were the better team, but just couldnt shake Courcey off to the extent that there was clear daylight between them, the Kilmoyley and indeed Kerry supporters could scarcely watch as Courcey dropped in the last 65 in search of the equalising goal. Kilmoyley held out and history was made
The O'Connor brothers from Kilmoyley struck 7 quality points, Collins nailed a huge free at the end of extra time and Dougie Fitzelle was superb at the back, the 3 kilmoyley subs struck a point each too which was crucial, it seems nearly wrong to single out players at this was team effort
All in all a real fillip for hurling in Kerry today and for Kilmoyley perhaps their greatest day yet
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Post by thehermit on Jan 9, 2022 20:59:12 GMT
Great stuff Mossie, Kilmoyley to the rescue indeed today and to hell with the hospitality restrictions tonight - I hope a few watering holes are operating behind closed blinds around Ardfert  The best thing is they've broken the glass ceiling as Radio Kerry put it. Ardfert could, maybe should, have beaten them in the Co final. What will they be thinking tonight? Ditto the Ballyduffers, Lixnaw, Causeway etc. They'll all be thinking that the Neilus Flynn Cup isn't enough no more. Kilmoyley have raised the bar, Kerry club hurling is good enough to win Munster titles and should be good enough to win All Ireland titles. More power to them! |
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Post by veteran on Jan 9, 2022 21:11:13 GMT
Just watched it on Clubber. What a feast. Down four points on a couple of occasions in the second half of normal time one feared for the Kilmoyley boys but heart and spirit kicked in. Maurice O’Connor, as elusive as Shane Conway, got a couple of magical points, Dougie Fitzell seemed to be on Garda point duty rerouting all Cork traffic and Daniel Collins was a man eater. Took time off to take a few frees as well! By the time the match finished it was easy to forget Paudie O’Connor’s necklace of points in the first half. But as is usually the case it was a team performance.
Not a bad few days at all. We just might survive another winter.
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Post by mossie on Jan 9, 2022 21:42:11 GMT
Just watched it on Clubber. What a feast. Down four points on a couple of occasions in the second half of normal time one feared for the Kilmoyley boys but heart and spirit kicked in. Maurice O’Connor, as elusive as Shane Conway, got a couple of magical points, Dougie Fitzell seemed to be on Garda point duty rerouting all Cork traffic and Daniel Collins was a man eater. Took time off to take a few frees as well! By the time the match finished it was easy to forget Paudie O’Connor’s necklace of points in the first half. But as is usually the case it was a team performance. Not a bad few days at all. We just might survive another winter. It was a feast Veteran, the atmosphere in the stand in limerick today reminded me of the kerry v mayo football semi final replay at the reply though a smaller crowd!. when hurling folk in kerry champion the virtues of the kerry senior hurling championship( a wonderful competition), the snipers say it is just parish passion and the hurling skill is useless Well Kilmoyley have beaten Tipp, Waterford and Cork opposition to win Munster showing some sublime skill and in the Kerry county championship, they are only winning some matches by the skin of their teeth so it shows other clubs in Kerry at this standard along with Kilmoyley Also, some folk may not realise just how tiny Kilmoyley is , what they have achieved is amazing and not just today Kilmoyley will now chase all ireland glory and in 2022 we will have a mighty senior hurling championship in kerry, a good few clubs with good reason will feel they can take down Kilmoyley in Kerry and the scene is now set for that |
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 9, 2022 22:07:15 GMT
Well said Mossie.
This is what winning the intermediate All Ireland meant to Tommy Walsh of Kilkenny.
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Post by veteran on Jan 10, 2022 10:22:04 GMT
Are Banagher the senior or intermediate champions of Derry?
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Post by hurlingman on Jan 10, 2022 11:37:44 GMT
Are Banagher the senior or intermediate champions of Derry? Intermediate i would say. Slaughtneil are the Ulster senior champions. |
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Post by veteran on Jan 10, 2022 13:05:00 GMT
Are Banagher the senior or intermediate champions of Derry? Intermediate i would say. Slaughtneil are the Ulster senior champions. In that case, without knowing anything about Banagher, one would assume that Kilmoyley have a good chance of advancing. |
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 10, 2022 16:26:52 GMT
MON, 10 JAN, 2022 - 06:00
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Before Christmas, I met Ger Loughnane and Tony Considine in Ennis for a catch-up. Tony doesn’t take a drink, but he joined us and we had a great chat about hurling — sure what else would we be talking about?
The fortunes of Kilmallock was obviously discussed. I got the impression from Tony that he’d have preferred if the Munster final was played a week after they took Midleton apart, especially with two of their players getting married the week before the Ballygunner game.
Still, Tony was happy with where Kilmallock were at. They trained on St Stephen’s Day. They went hiking the following day. Outside of the wedding parties, no other player on the squad attended the two weddings in order to stave off any Covid concerns.
We’re a lot closer here to Limerick than we are to Waterford city but, while I got wind of a lot of what was happening in Kilmallock, the silence around Ballygunner was almost deafening. And I took that — excuse the paradox — as a serious statement of intent.
For years now, Ballygunner’s history has almost been defined by their failure to win an All-Ireland. They have had some super teams, but Waterford have also had some great teams over the last 50 years and haven’t won an All-Ireland either.
That hurt is clearly driving this Ballygunner squad, but I felt that their main source of motivation going into yesterday was the fallout from the Loughmore-Castleiney game, when Ballygunner were fingered for unsportsmanlike conduct.
I’ll hold my hand up and say that our own Irish Examiner podcast didn’t spare the rod on their backs after that win, especially in how Noel and John McGrath were red-carded. I certainly didn’t feel that way, but a lot of the commentary on social media afterwards seemed to determine that Ballygunner were almost undeserving of a Munster final win in the aftermath.
That stuff is powerful when a team is looking for an edge but Ballygunner had more angles than a compass to motivate themselves in the build-up to yesterday. The defeat to Borris-Ileigh in 2019 was another obvious starting point but as Pauric O’Mahony noted in his TG4 man-of-match interview afterwards, half of this team didn’t even feature in that 2019 provincial final loss.
Ballygunner delivered the performance they were always capable of but you would have to say that Kilmallock malfunctioned.
I can associate that stuff with Clare teams, from just pure hard experience. One of the best Clarecastle teams I ever played on was the 1994 side, which lost to Toomevara in Munster by one point. We probably didn’t have that real inner belief we needed on the provincial stage at the time but, once Clare made the breakthrough in 1995, Clare clubs had that confidence which saw them go on to win every Munster title between 1995-2000.
Limerick have that belief and swagger now, which made yesterday’s collapse even harder to understand from a Limerick team. What encapsulated it for me was how the Ballygunner midfield of Conor Sheahan and Paddy Leavey blew away the Kilmallock pairing of Aaron Costello and Robbie Hanley.
Nobody would have predicted that scenario beforehand, but Ballygunner just had all the big performers. Dessie Hutchinson surely pushed Pauric hard for man-of-the-match. You can’t give Dessie space but he was able to find oceans of it all afternoon. He wasn’t the only one — the Ballygunner forwards were huddled close together before bursting into space to create that constant out-ball option.
They’re a lovely possession-based side which neatly build their scores from that short-passing game around the middle. And once Ballygunner get into that winning position, they’ve long had the luxury of being able to drop Philip Mahony into the pocket in front of the full-back to help close the game out. Philip may not be the quickest but he’s a brilliant reader of the game.
This is a serious team, but that has long been the case. It’s not as if Ballygunner have been losing in Munster to poor teams; Na Piarsaigh beat them in two provincial finals; they narrowly lost the 2019 All-Ireland semi-final to Ballyhale; Borris-Ileigh gave Ballyhale bags of it in the 2020 All-Ireland final.
I’m sure Ballygunner was hopping last night. With a 3.30pm start, they’ll have done well to have a few pints with their club-mates before 8pm — unless they say there was a wedding in the clubhouse, which would extend the celebrations until midnight! However, long the party lasted, this group fully deserve to bask in the warm afterglow of such a brilliant performance.
I wasn't able to go to Cork yesterday because of staff shortages in the pub but one of the spin-offs was being able to enjoy the glorious Radio Kerry commentary of Mike O’Halloran and Mark Foley on the Munster Intermediate final. I had paid my tenner to show the live streaming of Kilmoyley and Courcey Rovers in the pub, but we switched to the radio in the second half to juice up the excitement. The Connacht club football final was on the TV, but the sound was drowned out by Mike’s commentary and the riveting tension and drama bursting out of the radio.
Everyone who was listening thought the game was gone from Kilmoyley when they went five points down, but they found a way to get the game to extra-time, before driving on to land that coveted Munster title.
When I managed Kilmoyley in the past, it was always a dream of mine to bring the people of that great club to Croke Park for an All-Ireland final. They still have to negotiate their way past a semi-final but they’re just 60 minutes away from that dream now.
It’s absolutely brilliant for such great hurling people, especially the lads who would have hurled for me over a decade ago; John Brendan O’Halloran, Tom Murnane, James Godley, Adrian Royle, and Robert Collins.
The victory also crowned an epic weekend for Kerry hurling after the county side’s win against Tipperary on Saturday for the first time. Kilmoyley smashed another glass ceiling yesterday, but another one is waiting to be demolished in two weeks.
And on the same weekend, Ballygunner will also be seeking to blow that All-Ireland semi-final glass ceiling to smithereens.
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Post by homerj on Jan 11, 2022 9:46:54 GMT
any date and venue for the intermediate semi final yet?
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 11, 2022 13:54:26 GMT
Kerry friends and foes got behind Kilmoyley Munster bid
MON, 10 JAN, 2022 - 17:48
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Last Thursday evening, Kilmoyley hurling club set up a GoFundMe page in a bid to cover the costs of their Munster intermediate campaign.
The North Kerry club would typically hold a parish collection for such occasions, but amid record Covid case numbers, it was decided to migrate online and invite donations from “all club supporters and Kerry GAA followers”.
On Sunday morning, and with less than a few hours to their Munster intermediate hurling final, Kilmoyley centre-forward Daniel Collins logged onto the club’s GoFundMe page to see how the online fundraiser was progressing.
Not alone was he bowled over by the €15,000 raised, but also by the spread of generosity which stretched far beyond Kilmoyley village.
Rival clubs and players from around North Kerry had reached deep into their pockets to support the Kilmoyley cause, keenly aware, said Collins, that the benefits of a Kilmoyley Munster final victory would stretch to every parish, village, and town in the Kingdom where the small-ball game is played and promoted.
“I saw fellas from Lixnaw, Causeway, Ballyduff, and Ardfert put money into that GoFundMe page. Everyone wanted this win for Kerry hurling, it is the best thing for Kerry hurling going forward,” remarked Collins after Kilmoyley became the first Kerry club to lift the Munster intermediate hurling title.
Had Kilmoyley fallen to either Moyne-Templetuohy of Tipperary or Waterford’s Dunhill in their Munster championship outings before Christmas then Collins would have been on duty with the Kerry hurlers at Austin Stack Park on Saturday afternoon as they hosted Tipperary in the Munster SHL quarter-final.
Instead, the 2020 Joe McDonagh All-Star winner watched from the wings as Kerry secured a first-ever victory over Tipperary at senior inter-county level. And while it has correctly been pointed out that Tipperary fielded a hugely understrength side, it needs also to be mentioned that Kerry’s starting line-up contained just five players who started last season’s Joe McDonagh Cup final defeat to Westmeath. Noticeable too was the inclusion of a Dr Crokes player in Saturday’s Kerry team, the Killarney club returning to the senior grade last year.
Along with Kilmoyley’s extra-time win over Cork champions Courcey Rovers, Collins insisted that these are the results Kerry hurling has to produce to keep the game moving forward in the Kingdom and to continue closing the gap to the counties ahead of them.
“Kerry, on Saturday, were a bit like us today in that they stuck to their gameplan, their workrate was phenomenal, and they dug out the win.
“It has been a great weekend for Kerry hurling and a great start to the year for Kerry hurling and new manager Stephen Molumphy. Hopefully, they can push it on the next day against Limerick in the semi-final.”
Kilmoyley, added Collins, drew inspiration from the Tipperary scalp.
“To beat Tipperary, no matter what team they put out, is a great achievement. We took great pride and great motivation from that.
“Our win is a step in the right direction for Kerry hurling. It is the first time a Kerry club has won this competition. Whoever comes out of Kerry next year, hopefully they will be saying to themselves, we are going to have one right cut at Munster. They should be expecting to win Munster.
“We'll celebrate this over the next few days but I can tell you we'll be ready for the All-Ireland semi-final (against Banagher of Derry) in a fortnight.”
That Kilmoyley stand one hour from becoming the first Kerry club to contest an All-Ireland club hurling final at any grade has much to do with Collins’ near-flawless freetaking in Sunday’s 0-24 to 0-21 triumph.
The centre-forward threw over 10 placed-ball efforts and it was his free, from inside the Kilmoyley 65-metre line, that put the Kerrymen two clear late on in the second period of extra-time. He then clinched the result when converting a ‘65 shortly after.
“If they are not going over, they are killing the team. I missed a penalty to win the county title in 2018. That was probably the biggest low of my career. Since then, I have put so much work into freetaking and the mental side of freetaking, that if you miss one, just put it to the back of your head and go again.
“This win is definitely the biggest of the biggest that we have ever achieved.”
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Post by Ballyfireside on Jan 11, 2022 20:38:35 GMT
Such crowd-funding will be most interesting for the GAA.
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Post by kerryexile5 on Jan 11, 2022 22:39:44 GMT
Such crowd-funding will be most interesting for the GAA. Great to see it. Kilmoyley are a great example of how to get the maximum out of your club even if you have a tiny population due to emigration, low numbers etc.. They are the pride of North Kerry! |
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Post by pluto on Jan 14, 2022 16:32:01 GMT
Kilmoyley v banagher is fixed for Sunday week @ 2pm in the Connaught Gaa centre of excellence. Is there a stand there or will it be on in the dome. The dome only has seating for 600
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 14, 2022 16:45:49 GMT
Bizarre decision.
I can see this being changed
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Post by homerj on Jan 14, 2022 17:13:34 GMT
Kilmoyley v banagher is fixed for Sunday week @ 2pm in the Connaught Gaa centre of excellence. Is there a stand there or will it be on in the dome. The dome only has seating for 600 there are outside pitches there too, one was live on rte before christmas. |
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Post by pluto on Jan 14, 2022 18:35:49 GMT
Outside pitches they have but there could be 3000 people at it
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Post by peanuts on Jan 15, 2022 1:20:12 GMT
Bizarre decision. I can see this being changed How so? It’s almost exactly 3 hours from both Kilmoyley and Banagher so fair in that respect. No outside stand as far as I know so that is an issue in fairness. |
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Post by peanuts on Jan 15, 2022 1:20:37 GMT
Outside pitches they have but there could be 3000 people at it Really? |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Jan 15, 2022 2:20:45 GMT
Such crowd-funding will be most interesting for the GAA. Great to see it. Kilmoyley are a great example of how to get the maximum out of your club even if you have a tiny population due to emigration, low numbers etc.. They are the pride of North Kerry! Absolutely - maybe a worthwhile thread is compare/contrast with Slaughtneil, and hopefully Corofin! BTW how far down do ya have to go to get a foundation in Kilmoyley? i.e. dairying or tillage, correlation between hurling and good land, for he who thinks milk comes out of a carton! |
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 15, 2022 13:36:05 GMT
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Davy Glennon of Westmeath after the Joe McDonagh Cup final win over Kerry last year. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile
FRI, 14 JAN, 2022 - 19:36
JOHN FOGARTY
In time, just as the changes to the penalty and 20-metre free in hurling became known as the Anthony Nash rule, the eligibility exemption might be known as the Davy Glennon derogation.
Not that the man himself sees what the fuss is all about but it was partly on the basis of his switch from Galway to Westmeath, his mother Eileen’s home county, in 2020 while continuing to line out for his home club Mullagh that Kerry argued they too should be able to recruit players with parental links to the Kingdom.
The presence of three former Limerick under-age players in Stephen Molumphy’s panel, two in his starting line-up, in their famous win over Tipperary last weekend brought further attention to the matter.
Having said that, the exception made for Kerry has been on the minds of Antrim, Down and Offaly for several weeks and they intend to voice their concerns at Central Council on Saturday week.
Whatever the backstory, Glennon supports the presence of Paudie Ahern, Louis Dee and Niall Mulcahy in the Kerry panel.
“If they are deemed eligible to play, are good enough to play and Kerry as a group and as a county are willing to back them then why not? It’s three more players who hadn’t played senior inter-county before.
“How many players in Galway, Limerick and Tipperary get to play inter-county? It’s a select group. These lads might never get into the Limerick panel and they’re doing nothing wrong at the end of the day.
“It’s a game of hurling, it’s the GAA, it’s amateur - they’re not doing this for any monetary reason. There is a connection for them with Kerry. I think it’s a great thing for Kerry and it will bring the standard of Kerry right up.”
Glennon made the first moves about his switch to Westmeath. Left out in the cold by Shane O’Neill in Galway, he contacted Noel Larkin, the Westmeath selector who was an All-Ireland SHC winning selector alongside Micheál Donoghue in 2017.
“I was 28. Was I going to finish when I felt I had something left to offer? Shane O’Neill had just come into Galway and was going to get one if not two years. When I finally got to meet Shane O’Neill, he said my career wasn’t over but then he didn’t exactly say I had a chance, that they would be looking at lads in the club championship.
“This was 2020 when the club came before inter-county and I did have a good campaign but still there was no call so I was left with a big decision. I asked some of my hurling friends what they would think about me going to Westmeath. They backed me.”
Westmeath missed the deadline for Glennon to line out in 2020 but he played a leading role in their McDonagh Cup success last year, scoring five points in the final against Kerry and claiming a spot on the McDonagh team of the year.
At the outset, he was worried whether he would be accepted but those concerns soon disappeared. “It was tough going initially because you were saying to yourself, ‘What are lads thinking of me?’ You just have to get stuck in and if I was willing to put in the effort then there wouldn’t be any problems.
“The travelling was hard but from day one I got a warm reception, I couldn’t ask for enough. When the dressing rooms were out of bounds, there were lads asking me if I wanted to use the showers in their houses.
“I suppose they looked at it and they did say to me that if I could bring a bit of experience from my time with Galway it would be a massive help to them getting over the line. I went to Westmeath to try and win trophies — I didn’t go up to get gear.
“I told them at the outset that I wasn’t there to be just an inter-county hurler. With my gambling addiction, hurling has helped to keep me busy and fit. I did feel the pressure to perform after leaving Galway but Westmeath has been great to me. We’re in the Liam MacCarthy Cup this year and I still believe I have something to give.”
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 15, 2022 13:39:39 GMT
There should be a cap on the number of players that are allowed play for a county under this derogation in my view.
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 17, 2022 18:20:10 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jan 22, 2022 17:28:47 GMT
Another boost for Kerry hurling today with Tralee Parnells winning the North Kerry under 21 championship
Great boost for Parnells who have done so much hard and great work in reviving hurling in Tralee
They beat Ballyduff, Ballyheigue and Crotta to win it, all 3 who fancied their chances in the competition.
Hopefully this win will give them the fuel to win the intermediate championship and become a senior championship team
Great to see Na Gaeil, Stacks, Ballymac footballers hurling together under a Tralee banner. It appears hurling in Tralee has a foothold again.
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Post by hurlingman on Jan 22, 2022 23:27:10 GMT
Another boost for Kerry hurling today with Tralee Parnells winning the North Kerry under 21 championship Great boost for Parnells who have done so much hard and great work in reviving hurling in Tralee They beat Ballyduff, Ballyheigue and Crotta to win it, all 3 who fancied their chances in the competition. Hopefully this win will give them the fuel to win the intermediate championship and become a senior championship team Great to see Na Gaeil, Stacks, Ballymac footballers hurling together under a Tralee banner. It appears hurling in Tralee has a foothold again. Great win in whst was essentially the U21 county championship. |
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 23, 2022 12:38:56 GMT
Is there a stream of the Kilmeyley game today anywhere
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 23, 2022 16:19:54 GMT
5 point win for Kilmoyley.
They were against the wind in the first half but led by a point at half time.
Mossie oConnor scored their two goals, one in each half ....one with the boot.
They missed a penalty too in that first half.
Adrian Ryle who turned the county final their way when he came on as a sub got a straight red in the last minute and he will be a big loss in the final.
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 23, 2022 17:10:29 GMT
Super game between St Thomas of Galway and Ballyhale.
St Thomas were the better team in my book.
They were 3 up with a few minutes to go when Ballyhale got a penalty and TJ Reid converted it to level.
St Thomas grabbed the initiative again and went two up with time up.
Ballyhale launched one last attack and won a free 21 yards out but to the right. St Thomas lined the goal. TJ buried it.
Ballyhale v Ballygunner in the final.
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Post by southward on Jan 23, 2022 20:32:41 GMT
Got the last quarter of the Kilmoyley game on Radio Kerry. Once again they finished the game strongly. Fantastic achievement. The red-carding of Ryle was a real shame though, especially as the game was over. Don't suppose there's any chance of an appeal?
Slight crib with the radio commentators today- need to remember that the listener can't see the action. At times today, while the game was in the melting pot and play was going on, they'd be yapping away about the previous play and other things. That might be ok for tv but radio requires more detailed commentary or it's hard to know what's happening.
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