Cork 3-19 Meath 1-12

A five star performance from Rory Twohig saw Cork ease into the semi final with this commanding display against Meath in the All Ireland MFC quarter final played in blustery conditions at Semple Stadium Thurles. The keeper finished with nine points.

Cormac Walsh put Meath on the scoreboard first. Twohig levelled matters from a 45 with his first of the afternoon before Harry McGuirk put the Leinster finalists back in front. For the next six minutes the Munster champions dominated. Ben Hegarty, Joe Miskella and Tom Whooley raised white flags before Twohig raised two orange flags in quick succession. Conn Brennan got Meath’s 3rd point at the end of the first quarter but Cork playing with the wind finished the half on the front foot. Conor Murphy, a 2 pointer from Miskella, Twohig and Whooley again, gave the young Rebels a 0-13 to 0-3 half time lead.

Cork got the perfect start to the second half with an Eoghan Ahern goal inside the opening minute. McGuirk landed Meath’s first two pointer before Cork were in for goal number 2 courtesy of midfielder Kieran O’Shea and the Rebels appeared to be on their way to a comfortable victory. 

Meath had other ideas and refused to surrender. Cork were reduced to 14 when half back Darragh O’Sullivan was shown a black card. Milo Stafford raised an orange flag and minutes later McGuirk executed a well worked goal. Walsh doubled his tally and with 17 minutes remaining eight points separated the teams. Twohig eased Cork’s nerves with another magnificent 2 pointer and the lead was out to ten entering the last quarter. Cork closed out proceedings with four minutes remaining when Miskella finished to the Meath net.

Cork scorers: Rory Twohig 0-9, Tom Whooley 0-4, Joe Miskella 1-3, Eoghan Ahern and Kieran O'Shea 1-0 each, Conor Murphy and Alex O'Herlihy 0-1 each.

Meath scorers: Harry McGuirk 1-3, Cormac Walsh 0-3, Milo Stafford 0-2, Conn Brennan, Niall Smyth and Alex Keane 0-1 each

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