'Their technical ability on the hurling pitch is unbelievable': Half-forward line drives Cork to victory

With an attendance of 8,464 in Pearse Stadium, Thomas Monaghan’s early goal and Cathal Mannion’s blistering start had the Rebels in a hole. Their path out of it lay in three things: bite, the bench and one brilliant half-forward line.

FOR GRABS: Galway’s Cillian Trayers and Joshua Ryan grapple for posseession with Cork's Séamus Harnedy and Declan Dalton in their Division 1A meeting at Pearse Stadium. Pic: James Crombie/Inpho

AHL Division 1A: Galway 1-21 Cork 2-20

League games are qualified ventures, but even still, everything Cork sought coming up the road to Salthill was found on Saturday night. They fought back from seven points down in the first half to dog out a gritty two-point win.

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