Alan Connolly fires a hat-trick for Cork as defeat consigns Offaly to Division 1B next year
The flying Cork men handed Offaly a severe dose of reality after an encouraging start to the year, but this was always likely to happen as the Munster side could not afford a defeat as they bid to stay in top flight hurling in next year’s restructured league.
Cork could have had another two goals and Mark Troy made a great 32nd minute save from Alan Connolly while an earlier foul on Shane Barrett was suspiciously close to the penalty area. That second half proved to be a long one for Offaly. All eight of their second half points came from David Nally and only one of those were from play – Nally had taken over the free taking duties when Eoghan Cahill went off at half-time.
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