The difference between victory and defeat was thin, yet the gulf between election and despair was rarely as wide as following the 2024 decider.
Ronan Early WE’RE HERE TO tee up the All-Ireland hurling final, which is repeated on TG4 this evening. Watch on in celebration if you are a Clare person, in wonder if you are from anywhere but Cork. If you are from there and have never been waterboarded and are curious as to what that might feel like – then clear your schedule from 7.50pm.
It’s the moment from what was perhaps the final when it comes to melodrama, with its paper-thin line between winning and defeat; elation that will endure for as long as any of the Clare players are alive and soul-crushing defeat for Cork.
Seconds later, he assisted Clare’s next point. His speed of thought evident in how he moved to shoot from his own 65, but then dummied and jinked inside to hand-pass into the run of Diarmuid Ryan who had more space to get his shot away. There were times during the second quarter, with Clare moving the ball around and dominant on both puckouts, that it seemed they might pull away from Cork.
This years #PwCAllStars nominee Mark Rodgers scored this outstanding individual goal in this years All-Ireland Final. 🎯— The GAA October 31, 2024 This was largely the story of the second half: the Rebels chasing. Sometimes they’d catch up and it would be set for them to kick on, only for something seismic to happen. From this point on Kelly was responsible for a lot of that.
Who knows, perhaps Clare would have wrested back control anyway. They kicked on to lead by three again by the 64th minute. It would have been four and quite probably goodnight by the 67th minute had Aron Shanagher got the free when it looked like he was pulled by Eoin Downey, yet Murphy called it the other way.
As great as the goal and point in normal time were, his two points in the first half of extra-time were perhaps more acutely needed. The sense by then was that Cork were getting a run on Clare. Threatening to do so at least. His point in the second half of ET was more obviously great, in the vein of his opening 1-1 and something no hurler could understate the brilliance of. His persistence and ball-winning skills were to the fore again, first when he flicked it out of Ethan Twomey’s grasp following a Coleman stick-pass. When Coleman gathered and hand-passed from the break Kelly got the hurley in again to intercept. The next bit was instinctive and all the better for it.
You kind of saw the halfway house version we have become accustomed to against Tipperary in May. Tipp were a beaten side by the time he came on after 59 minutes. Still, around 20 seconds later he’d boomed over a superb point.
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