St Mary’s advance to semi-final after thrilling second half turnaround

St Mary’s (Kerry) 2-12 Upperchurch-Drombane (Tipperary) 1-10: Two goals in less than a minute turned this encounter in Cashel on its head and fired St Mary’s to the Munster Club IFC semi-finals.

Down by six at half-time, the Kerry side looked all but out of it, unable to deal with the influence of Upperchurch-Drombane midfielder Paul Shanahan and the fluency of Andy Kinane, Colm Stapleton and Pat Shortt up front.

But the motivational words of manager Maurice Fitzgerald and his lieutenants worked a treat as they proceeded to outscore the Tipp champions by 2-7 to 0-2 in the second half.