Another great weekend in both provinces leads me to believe Wexford will win Leinster
, but the biggest message for me from the weekend was that the Cork genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
Shane Barrett was strong at centre forward and Darragh Fitzgibbon showed well in the early stages for Cork, but things started to go astray for them later in the first half. A couple of passes from Declan Dalton didn’t go to hand and Séamus Harnedy hit a wide and so did Patrick Horgan. But just before half-time the flow picked up when Horgan and Harnedy got a couple of beautiful points and Alan Connolly struck for the goal. It looked ominous for Tipp and so it proved.
As anticipated, Tipperary had no answer to the pace of Cork: Connolly, Barrett, Fitzgibbon and then Shane Kingston off the bench scored points with his first four attempts. His footwork and performance overall would have got him player of the match on most days but O’Donnell again was phenomenal. We should be enjoying him because this could well be his last season. He’s running the show for Clare.
Cork-Gaa Tipperary-Gaa Clare-Gaa Waterford-Gaa Gaa
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