No clean delivery, or indeed any sort of delivery at all, was sent in Hayes’ direction for another 12 minutes. There was then another gap of 17 minutes before Hayes was again properly fed. “I'd be very happy with our progression through the last four games in particular, in terms of the improvements that we're seeing, incremental improvements,” said Kiely. Scorers for Cork: T O’Mahony (0-7, 0-5 frees, 0-1 ‘65); T O’Connell, B Hayes (0-3 each); B Walsh, S Barrett (0-2 each); E Downey, S Kingston, A Walsh (0-1 each). CORK: P Collins; E Roche, D O’Leary, G Millerick; M Mullins, E Downey, D Cahalane; C Joyce, T O’Connell; B Walsh, T O’Mahony, S Kingston; S Barrett, A Walsh, B Hayes.

Source: Irish Examiner March 09, 2026 15:06 UTC