Nash save paves way for Cork win

CORK overcame Offaly for the second year in succession at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, benefiting from a crucial 60th minute save by goalkeeper Anthony Nash before pulling away to win easily.

They could have been more convincing winners but for substitute Cian McCarthy failing to put away an injury-time penalty which he had won himself.

Stating his ambition is to win enough games to ensure their survival in the group, Offaly manager Joe Dooley still took a lot of positives out of the defeat. “It’s not too easy to come down and beat Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it’s a kind of a fortress,’’ he commented.