Cork Constitution 6 Dolphin 9
Dolphin completed an historic All-Ireland League double over their great rivals Cork Constitution with a narrow, but deserved victory at Temple Hill last night.
It’s a major set-back to the Con’s title prospects as they missed out on a chance of making inroads on joint leaders Clontarf and Old Belvedere.
Dolphin led 9-3 at half-time. Barry Keeshan kicked them in front with a penalty before Gerry Hurley levelled after 18 minutes. Ten minutes later Dolphin regained the advantage with a penalty from Rory Scannell.
A couple of minutes from the interval an outbreak of fisticuffs led to the yellow carding of Con’s Ger Sweeney and Dolphin’s Scannell, who joined Cian Bohane in the sin-bin with Dolphin down to 13 players. Dolphin were awarded the resulting penalty, which Keeshan scored for 9-3.
The only score of the second-half was Hurley’s second penalty after 61 minutes.
CORK CONSTITUTION: D Lyons; M Keyes, L Duffy, I Dineen, C Desmond; J Holland, G Hurley, captain; G Duffy, A O'Driscoll, G Sweeney; J McSwiney, C O'Flaherty; G Lawler, W Ryan, J Ryan. Replacements: L Cahill, C Corkery, B Cagney, C Quinn, Y Browne.
DOLPHIN: E Mills; D Sweetnam, C Bohane, R Scannell, J Gleeson; B Keeshan, C Bannon; D Attridge, W Foley, C Condon, captain; C Rowe, D O'Shea; M Cronin, R Murphy, J Quill. Replacements: D Byrne, J Leahy, D O'Mahony, E O'Shaughnessy, A O'Leary.
Referee: E Hogan O'Connell (IRFU)
