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4 days ago | 
irishexaminer.com | John Fallon |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Play-offs hold fond memories for Irish women’s football. Attention between the generation led by Emma Byrne losing their Euro one in 2008 until Hampden Park in 2022 offered a generational breakthrough. Amber Barrett and her big toe will be forever renowned for slaying the Scots to end a qualification famine and begin the journey to Australia. Ireland’s route to the next World Cup, the 2027 version in Brazil, will be shaped by the outcome of another play-off in October.
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4 days ago | 
irishexaminer.com | John Fallon |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Saoirse Noonan’s winner on this Cork homecoming registered a victory for Ireland but not by sufficient margin to dislodge Slovenia for an automatic place in League A of the World Cup qualifiers. Just under 10,000 were at Pairc Uí Chaoimh to see Noonan add a second international goal to the first she scored in 2021 but Ireland required another three to salvage top spot in a group they were favourites for.
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1 week ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
THE look of exasperation afterwards on Jack O’Connor’s face had little to do with the underwhelming first half effort from his Kerry players, or even the yellow card the manager picked up after half time. His frustration, along with that of his Cork counterpart John Cleary, centred on the new clean catch or 'mark' interference rule, which had a considerable influence on Kerry’s eleven point victory over Cork.
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1 week ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
A rare deluge of orange flags from the men in green and gold. A not-so-rare victory for the green and gold over the neighbours. Kerry remain in pole position for direct progress to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Cork have 70 minutes against Roscommon to rescue their summer. The third quarter was the busiest and arguably the defining quarter of this second championship instalment between Cork and Kerry. The third quarter was busy before it ever began.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
If Cork were fortunate to come away from Sixmilebridge with a draw on the opening night of the Munster U20 championship, then Clare were more fortunate again to come away from this Leeside second instalment with semi-final success. Diarmuid Stritch’s 59th minute winning goal moved the visitors in front for only the third time in this fine contest. Their two previous occasions enjoying pole position lasted for a combined total of three minutes.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
A one-sided second-half at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, allied to a much closer affair at the Gaelic Grounds, has delivered Cork a home semi-final, against Clare, in the Munster U20 hurling championship. Going into this evening’s final pair of round-robin fixtures, Cork enjoyed the worst score difference of the three teams - Clare and Limerick the other two - tied on three points and in contention for semi-final involvement.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
The gap. This result didn’t confirm the gap. This result was the latest reinforcing of the gap. The gap is threatening to become a gulf. There are many who’d argue it already has. An eight-point hammering. A four-in-a-row of Munster U20 titles for Kerry. A 10th consecutive Kerry victory over Cork at all grades. The breakdown is as follows: three at senior, four at U20, and another three at minor. May 11, 2023, was the evening the Cork minors scored a no-jeopardy Munster championship win over Kerry.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Tipperary handed back a portion of their ticket allocation in the middle of last week. The Limerick stalemate had not convinced everyone. The League final wounds of a fortnight earlier were still too fresh. Those that did travel back down the M8 and were the minority amid a red sea of 42,231 braced themselves for fresh and deeper scars as early as the 53rd second. The League final hammering of 10 points was in immediate danger of being revised upward.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
A great rivalry in suspension. A great rivalry in which only the red hand is visible. The second successive Cork-Tipp meeting to end in a double-digit hammering. The second successive Cork-Tipp championship clash to end in a double-digit hammering. The second-successive Cork-Tipp championship clash where the dominant red hand ran in four goals.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Cork threw away the right to be dealt with first. Kerry, of course, didn’t earn that particular right. They just happened to be on the correct side of the scoreline when the hooter prevented Cork from kicking any more wides. Actually, before we deal with either of them, can we just put down on paper how Saturday night, for the unaffiliated, was a world of fun. A game that required treatment for whiplash in the first aid room afterwards.
