Encouraging signs from Rebels
On a chilly afternoon, with a heavy pitch, there was little between the sides for most of the opening half — in fact it was the students looking just that little bit sharper at that stage, deservedly with their noses in front after 27 minutes, 0-9 to 0-8. Encouragingly though for Cork manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy, it was Killeagh’s Seamus Harnedy doing much of the damage for UCC, with three fine points.
Finally the superior craft and class of the inter-county side began to tell and five crucial minutes before the break turned the tide with two goals from the ever-threatening corner-forwards Patrick Horgan and Paudie O’Sullivan. Centrally involved in both was towering full-forward Michael Cussen.
