Wexford quell short Cork rebellion

Where Cork and Wexford differed in intensity, hunger, and workrate was perfectly captured in the passages of play subsequent to Daniel Kearney’s goal.

Cork, first and foremost, were haunted to find themselves ahead by the minimum with just nine minutes left on the clock on Saturday evening. Having trailed from the 20th minute to the 60th, Cork’s green flag was a product more of Wexford incompetency than Rebel enterprise.

A Mark Ellis delivery had been poorly dealt with by the otherwise excellent Paudie Foley; Conor Lehane pounced on the mistake, offloaded to Kearney, and the Cork sub drilled a low shot past goalkeeper Mark Fanning. The scoreline, Cork 1-15 to Wexford 0-17, made a mockery of the preceding hour’s fare.