Tralee CBS and Coláiste Na Sceilge crash out but free-scoring St Flannan’s reach quarter-finals
Trailing by 2-6 to 0-6 at half-time — Shane O’Meara with both of the Clonmel goals — the Kerry school mounted a second-half fightback to triumph by 0-18 to 2-10, with Oisín O’Brien, Mikey Kelliher, Tomás O’Connor and Micheál Reidy all among the points. That result meant that Tralee, Clonmel and St Francis College, Rochestown, all finished on four points, but Tralee were the unlucky side to miss out on the quarter-finals on scoring difference.
In Group B, St Flannan’s College’s claimed a 6-8 to 3-9 win over Abbey CBS to finish on three points, the same as Coláiste na Sceilge. While head-to-head record is used when two sides are level, the schools had drawn when they met so scoring difference was employed and the eight-point win, combined with St Brendan’s big win over Sceilge, was enough to turn things Flannan’s way.
