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AIB Munster GAA Hurling Intermediate Club Championship Quarter-Final Replay – Ballybrown (Limerick) 3-10 Ballinhassig (Cork) 2-7
Battling Ballybrown never in danger
By Brendan Buckley for the Irish Examiner newspaper
Ballybrown (Limerick) 3-10 Ballinhassig (Cork) 2-7
A power-packed first half propelled Ballybrown to the Munster club IHC semi-finals. In this replay in Kilmallock, Ballybrown laid the foundations for victory when building up a 2-7 to 0-5 half-time lead — against the wind. Despite second half goals from 21metre frees from goalkeeper Martin Coleman, the Cork champions never forced their way back into serious contention.
Indeed they managed just four points from play in the hour’s hurling and registered 11 wides. By comparison Ballybrown had no such difficulty in front of goals. Freetaker Alan O’Connor ended with 0-12 in the drawn game and this time round landed 1-7. It was a 7th minute goal from Limerick minor player Bryan Griffin that set the Limerick champions on their way. Kyle Loftus and Lee Doolan added points and along with O’Connor frees they were 1-6 to 0-4 ahead midway through the first half with Fintan O’Leary notched three from play for Ballinhassig. The killer blow for Ballinhassig came in first half injury-time when O’Connor blasted a penalty high to the net after tricky corner-forward Michael Kiely was upended.
Ballinhassig got a tonic start to the second half when Coleman came up field to blast a free to the net. But James Hall and O’Connor (frees) maintained the Ballybrown lead that was soon 2-10 to 1-6. Coleman’s second goal left just it 2-10 to 2-7 with 13 minutes to play, but Ballinhassig weren’t to score from play in the second half and crucially failed to build upon Coleman’s second goal and reduce the deficit beyond a goal. Sub David Hall scored the third Ballybrown goal in the 59th minute to seal the victory and set up a clash with Kerry champions Ballyduff.
Scores for Ballybrown: A O’Connor 1-7 (0-5f, ’65 1-0pen), B Griffin, D Hall 1-0each, K Loftud, L Doolan, J Hall 0-1 each.
Scores for Ballinhassig: M Coleman 2-0 (2f), F O’Leary 0-4 (1f), D Dineen 0-3 (2f).
BALLYBROWN: D Lyons; R Burke, J Kennedy, S O’Reilly; I Burke, R Kenny, D Kenny; A Roberts, J Hall; K Loftus, B Griffin, S Kenny; M Kiely, A O’Connor, L Doolan.
Subs: S Foster for Roberts (44), D Hall for Doolan (51), E Loftus for K Loftus (55).
BALLINHASSIG: M Coleman; B O’Sullivan, E Finn, M Desmond; M Sheehan, M Ahern, B Lonbard; B Coleman, S McCarthy; D Dineen, P Coomey, S Dineen; P O’Sullivan, F O’Leary, D Duggan.
Subs: M Collins for Duggan, D O’Donovan for D Dineen (both 42), B Hollan for O’Sullivan (56).
Referee: J Ryan (Tipperary)
For the Record
| Ballinhassig (Cork) | Ballybrown (Limerick) | |
| Number of Munster Club Intermediate Hurling titles (by County) |
4 | 2 |
| Last Munster Intermediate Hurling Title (by County) | 2010 | 2011 |
| Munster Club Intermediate Hurling Championship Record since 2000 for each county’s representative | Played – 18 Won – 12 Lost – 5 Drawn – 1 |
Played – 15 Won – 7 Lost – 7 Drawn – 1 |
| Last meeting in the Munster Club Intermediate Hurling Championship involving participating county representatives | October 29th 2012 at Pairc Ui Rinn (Munster Club Quarter-Final) Ballinhassig (Cork) 1-17 Ballybrown (Limerick) 0-20 |
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| Odds & Ends | Ballinhassig (Cork) won the 2005 Munster Club Intermediate Hurling Championship Final courtesy of a 1-12 to 0-13 victory over Ballyduff Upper (Waterford) before losing out to Dicksboro in the All-Ireland Final.
Ballybrown (Limerick) won the 1989 Munster Club Senior Hurling Championship Final thanks to a 2-12 to 1-8 victory over Sixmilebridge (Clare) before losing out to Ballyhale Shamrocks in the All-Ireland Final. |
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Munster GAA HURLING Club Intermediate Championship 2012
Quarter-Finals
Sunday October 28th
@ Sixmilebridge Silvermines (Tipperary) 1-15 Ruan (Clare) 0-6
Monday October 29th
@ Pairc Ui Rinn Ballinhassig (Cork) 1-17 Ballybrown (Limerick) 0-20 (AET)
Quarter-Final Replay (Extra time)
Saturday November 3rd (Replay date – Saturday November 10th)
@ Limerick venue Ballinhassig (Cork) v Ballybrown (Limerick) 2:00pm
Semi-Finals (Extra time)
Sunday November 4th (Replay date – Saturday November 10th)
@ Dolla An Rinn (Waterford) v Silvermines (Tipperary) 2:00pm
Saturday November 10th (Replay date – Saturday November 17th)
@ Kerry or Limerick venue Ballyduff (Kerry) v Ballinhassig (Cork) or Ballybrown (Limerick) 2:00pm
Final (Extra time)
Sunday November 18th (Replay date – Saturday November 24th)
2:00pm throw-in
Odds and Ends
Since the competition began in 2003, Cork clubs have won 4 of the 9 Munster titles on offer. Clare are the only other county with a winning record in this competition, winning 2 Munster titles.
Cork have only lost their opening match in this competition on 3 occasions, in 2004, 2007 and 2011.
In the 3 seasons, 2006 to 2008 in this competition, the only 2 Counties who recorded victories were Cork and Clare. Limerick, Waterford, Kerry and Tipperary proceeded to lose 8 matches between them in this period.
Munster GAA Club HURLING Intermediate Championship Roll Of Honour
Cork (4) – 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010
Clare (2) – 2006, 2007
Tipperary (1) – 2004
Limerick (2) – 2009, 2011
Munster GAA Club HURLING Intermediate Championship
List of Winning Teams
Visit the Munster GAA web site History section to view the complete list of each winning team since the competition began 1888 – https://munster.gaa.ie/history/ihclub_teams/
All Ireland GAA Club HURLING Intermediate Championship
In the Club Intermediate Hurling All Ireland Roll of Honour, Cork have secured 2 titles courtesy of Blarney (2009) and Ballymartyle (2011) while Kildangan (Tipperary) won the 2004 All-Ireland title.
