It was heart-break for the Galway Minor footballers in Croke Park yesterday as Cork won their first All Ireland title at the grade since 2000 after a thrilling final that went all the way to extra time. It looked for Galway when substitute Niall Cunningham scored a brilliant goal deep into stoppage time to put his side 3 points up with barely a minute of play remaining, only for Cork to go straight down the field to score the equalising goal. In the end the Rebels were too strong in extra time as Kevin O'Dwyer reports...
After the
GALWAY: D Halleran; J McGrath, R King, L Tevnan; C Hernon, E Fiorentini, K O’Neill; J McLaughlin, D O’Flaherty; E Nolan, W Seoige, D Brady; N Grainger (0-2), T Culhane (0-10, seven frees), D Cox (1-2).
Subs: C Gallagher for O’Flaherty (52 mins), N Cunningham (2-0) for Grainger (56), D Kennedy for Nolan (56), J Webb for Hernon (57). M Colleran for Brady (65), A Naughton for Cox (77), D McNulty for O’Neill (77).
CORK: C O’Leary; D
Peet, N Lordan, J O’Shea; D Cashman (0-2), D Linehan, A Walsh Murphy; K
Scannell, J Lawton; H Murphy, P Campbell (0-1), E Nash; M O’Neill (0-6,
three frees), J Cahalane (1-1), C Corbett (1-7).
Subs:
S Andrews for Peet (35 mins), N Gough for O’Shea (46), L Murphy (0-1)
for Nash (51), R O’Donovan (1-2) for Cahalane (60). T O Donoghue for
Walsh Murphy (69), Cahalane for Campbell (76), Nash for Scannell (78).
