Nemo Rangers won their 11th Cork football title with a convincing win over Carbery in a one-sided final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh yesterday. It was their first success since 1993 and they join Lees, now a defunct club, at the head of the roll of honour. Nemo played with the wind from the start and established a 0-9 to 0-2 interval lead with Cork star Colin Corkery accounting for 0-5. Any hopes of a Carbery revival died in the 43rd minute when Nemo pounced for the game's only goal. Corkery played a high ball into the danger area where man of the match Alan Cronin fisted home from the edge of the square for a 1-10 to 0-3 lead.
Carbery rallied briefly with three unanswered points from Kieran Daly, Pat Connolly and Fachtna Collins, but two quick scores from David Niblock and Cronin underlined Nemo's superiority.
NEMO RANGERS: D Heaphy; L Kavanagh, N Geary (0-1), D Creedon; K Connolly, S O'Brien, M Cronin (0-1); K Cahill, D Kavanagh; S O'Brien, J Kavanagh (0-2), D Niblock (0-1); W Morgan, C Corkery (0-5), A Cronin (1-4). Subs: I Gibbons for Creedon; N Corkery for Morgan.
CARBERY: P Prendergast; J Sheehy, D Duggan, E Murphy; K Daly (0-2), O Sexton (0-1), S Levis; M Cronin, F Collins (0- 1); J O'Connell, J O'Sullivan (0-1), B O'Sullivan (0-1); J Whooley, P Hegarty, T Deasy. Subs: P Connolly (0- 1), for Deasy; M O'Sullivan for Cronin; A Quinn for O'Connell; J Cullinane for Whooley.
Referee: J Geaney (Cork).
