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Continued from last page Conor Lehane, who fired into
the roof of the net in the 52nd minute strengthened that view as Cork led by 1-23 to 1-18. Le- hane made it a six-point game, before the Limerick bench announced their arrival with Shane Dowling landing a mon- ster free to open his account. Another Dowling effort, this
time from play, was cancelled out by a first from Luke Meade for Cork with Daragh Fitzgib- bon also finding the range as Cork led by 1-26 to 1-20 in the 61st
minute. By now however
Cork were beginning to make a few errors and Limerick sensed that they were still in this con- test. Aaron Gillane started the revival with Kyle Hayes, Gillane twice more, Shane Dowling and Gillane again drawing the sides level as the game entered injury time. It took a magnifi- cent Nicky Quaid block to deny Seamus Harnedy a Cork goal as Limerick sensed that they had Cork on the rack and when Aaron Gillane slotted over a 73rd minute free it looked as if they might win in normal time. To their credit Cork found a level- ler as Conor Lehane was fouled with Patrick Horgan putting over the pressure shot to send the game to extra time with the sides finishing level at 1-27 each. By now however the mo- mentum appeared to be swing- ing Limerick’s way and when Seamus Harnedy, Darragh
Fitzgibbon and Daniel Kear- ney were all forced off injured in the opening period of extra time the Cork challenge began to fade. After the opening peri- od Limerick led by a point with Gillane 0-2 and Shane Dowling on target while two Patrick Hor- gan efforts just about kept the Rebels alive. Cork were by now fighting
a rear-guard action and when Shane Dowling was taken down, he dusted himself off to blast the ball high into the top corner to open a four-point lead for Limerick. By now Cork were on life support and when anoth- er sub Pat Ryan cut in along the end line to fire over Anthony Nash the game was done and dusted as Limerick now led by 3-30 to 1-29. Jack O’Connor who had replaced Kearney made it a six-point game, but with time now running out Cork needed goals and Limer- ick were not going to give any- thing soft as they fouled rather than concede. Patrick Horgan pointed and a long range free from Horgan also ended up in the Limerick net, but it came too late to make a difference as Limerick subs Barry Nash and David Reidy made sure of a first Limerick appearance since 2007 for the Treaty side who must now believe that they have every chance of winning. On the evidence of this dis-
play, few would disagree as over the 90 plus minutes, they fully
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deserved their victory. Cork will look back on another op- portunity missed and perhaps the time gap since the Munster Final win was too much as a battle-hardened Limerick went the distance better with wins over Carlow and Kilkenny hav- ing them right for this re-match. Cork had some superb individu- al displays but overall the team- work of Limerick along with a stronger subs bench saw Limer- ick home. Cork: P Horgan 1-12, C Le-
hane 1-3, D Fitzgibbon 0-4, D Kearney 0-3, S Harnedy 0-2, M Coleman 0-2, S Kingston 0-2, C Joyce, L Meade and J O’Connor 0-1 each. Limerick: A Gillane 0-13, S
Dowling 1-4, G Mulcahy 0-4, C Lynch 1-1, P Ryan 1-0, G Hegarty 0-3, T Morrissey, K Hayes, D O’Donovan, S Flana- gan, B Nash, D Byrnes and D Reidy 0-1 each. Cork: Anthony Nash, Sean O’Donoghue, Damien Cala- hane, Colm Spillane, Chris- topher Joyce, Eoin Cadogan, Mark Coleman, Darragh Fitzgibbon, Bill Cooper, Dan- iel Kearney, Conor Lehane, Luke Meade, Shane Kingston, Seamus Harnedy Captain and Patrick Horgan. Subs used Robbie O’Flynn
for S Kingston 55m, Mark El- lis for D Kearney 60m, Tim O’Mahony for L Meade 64m, D Kearney for E Cadogan 72m, Michael Calahane for S Har-
nedy injd75m, S Kingston for D Fitzgibbon injd 76m, Jack O’Connor for D Kearney 84m. Limerick: Nicky Quaid, Sean
Finn, Mike Casey, Richie Eng- lish, Diarmuid Byrnes, Declan Hannon Capt, Dan Morrissey, Darragh O’Donovan, Cian Lynch, Gearoid Hegarty, Kyle Hayes, Tom Morrissey, Aaron Gillane, Seamus Flanagan and Graham Mulcahy. Subs used Peter Casey for T
Morrissey 50m, Shane Dowl- ing for S Flanagan 56m, Pat Ryan for G Mulcahy 62m, Will O’Donoghue for D o’Dono- van 65m, Seamus Hickey for D Byrnes 75m, Barry Nash for A Gillane injd 83m and David Reidy for D Hannon 88m. Referee: Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow)
Crucial Moments 1: Limerick Goals Cian Lynch’s goal kept Lim-
erick in the hunt at half time while Shane Dowling and Pat Ryan goals sealed the victory. 2:Nicky Quaid Block Nicky Quaid save to get a
block on Seamus Harnedy was crucial as a goal at this juncture would probably have won it for Cork.
3:Limerick Bench The Limerick bench contrib-
uted 2-6 when introduced in contrast to just one point from Jack O’ Connor for Cork.
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