Cork in a different class

Cork  6-12

Clare  0-3

Clare suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Cork in Saturday evening’s Munster senior camogie final, losing on a 6-12 to 0-3 scoreline. Cork, who had the majority of play in the first half, had scored 5-4 to Clare’s two points by the half-way stage, with their goals coming between the 10th and 18th minutes as their forwards blitzed the Clare defence.

From here on, the Banner side were fighting an uphill battle against a stronger and better-balanced outfit.
Cork opened the scoring with a Sile Burns point and added on two more points, a second for Burns and a free from Jennifer O’Leary, before Denise Cronin eventually found the Clare net in the eighth minute after Susan Vaughan in Clare’s goal had twice stopped Cronin’s attempts but was unsuccessful in clearing the ball after the second shot.
Burns raised a green flag for Cork two minutes later when her handpass flew over the head of Vaughan. Cronin goaled again after Cork won the resulting puckout and Linda Dorgan added another mid-way through the half. Katriona Mackey made it goal number five in the 18th minute, ensuring that all the Cork full-forward line had green flags. Deirdre Murphy pointed a free for Clare in the 19th minute and again in the 30th minute she converted another free to bring the half-time score 5-4 to 0-2 in favour of Cork.
Clare produced a more spirited performance in the second half but it was an uphill battle. Cork added another five points before Cronin goaled in the 20th minute, Deirdre Murphy converted a 45 for Clare in the 29th minute, leaving the last score of the game to Cork’s Briege Corkery.
Clare’s Bridie O’Looney, on behalf of the Munster Council, presented the player of the game award to Anna Geary of Cork and camogie president Joan O’Flynn presented the trophy to Cork captain Rena Buckley.

Cork: Aoife Murray; Jenny Duffy, Elaine O’Riordan, Pamela Mackey; Caroline Motherway, Rena Buckley (capt), Anna Geary; Orla Cotter, Briege Corkery 0-1; Eimear O’Sullivan (0-1), Linda Dorgan (1-2), Jennifer O’Leary (0-2f); Sile Burns (1-3 1f), Denise Cronin (3-1), Katriona Mackey (1-1).
Subs: Joanne Casey for Sile Burns (half-time); Eimear White for Aoife Murray (47 minutes); Amanda O’Regan for Caroline Motherway (43 minutes); Maria Walsh for Linda Dorgan (49 minutes).
Clare: Susan Vaughan; Helen McMahon, Chloe Morey, Sinead O’Loughlin; AnneMarie McMahon, Róisín McMahon, Ashling Hannon; Kate Lynch, Ruth Kaiser; Sharon McMahon, Fiona Lafferty, Shonagh Enright; Mairéad Scanlon, Deirdre Murphy (0-3, 2f, 1 45), Aiveen O’Shea.
Subs: Áine O’Brien for Róisín McMahon; Patricia O’Loughlin for Mairead Scanlon; Aimee McInerney for Sinead O’Loughlin (all at half time); Norah Murphy for Aiveen O’Shea (43 minutes); Eireann Hennessey for Sharon McMahon (53 minutes).
Referee: Eamon Browne, Tipperary.