Eoin Brosnan point puts Dr Crokes into last eight

Dr Crokes 1-11 Austin Stacks 1-10: Experience was what Martin Byrnes cited at the finish.

The Dr Crokes manager wore the look of a mightily relieved man stepping off the Fitzgerald Stadium turf, and while several of his troops had a hand in Crokes’ late rescue mission, Byrnes singled out the old dogs still trekking along the hard road.

With regulation time almost elapsed and the teams deadlocked at 1-10 apiece, Kieran Donaghy won a free on his own ’45-metre line. The kick did not reach its intended target, with Eoin Brosnan intercepting.