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GAA News from Ireland: Two straight losses for Kilkenny

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Kilkenny tasted defeat for the second week in a row as Cork took a leaf out of Tipperary’s book in their NHL clash at Pairc Ui Chaoimh.  Cork won by a score of 0-18 to 1-13.

Victory was sweet for the Rebels, who were hammered by Kilkenny in the same competition last year as manager Denis Walsh admitted afterwards.

“There were only seven of today’s 15 who started the match last year, but I’m sure from a Cork hurling point of view this was a matter of pride,” said Walsh after his team’s two point win in a game that saw Cats star Michael Grace sent off just before halftime.

“These guys have been together a long time and the new guys have blended in very well. I think we got the message today they wanted to win in the last quarter of an hour when it was there to be won, and we could easily have left it behind us.

“The spare man probably helped us. I think John Gardiner in particular would have been able to read the play and picked up a few scores.

“We were under a bit of pressure, the lads that came in off the bench did a good job and that makes me enthusiastic going forward.

“Paudie O’Sullivan was very sharp, but we’ve seen that. He was out with an operation on a knee injury for the last month or two but he was very sharp before that. We saw there today, coming in for 20 minutes, everything he touched he was sharp and he was unlucky he didn’t get a goal.”

Kilkenny boss Brian Cody remained positive and said, “There were a lot of good things from our point of view. We were disappointed to lose, as ever, but we were reasonably happy with the performance.”

 
Dubs Win

DUBLIN maintained their impressive NFL form in Saturday night’s Parnell Park 2-11 to 0-9 win over Monaghan as a goal and six points from Bernard Brogan proved decisive, but their coach was more impressed with the effort than the win.

“In every game so far we have got good work-rate but we made a lot of mistakes,” said Dubs boss Gilroy.

“We had two or three goal chances where we just over-passed the ball. But it is March and fellas are going to make those mistakes. You can’t fault the effort.

“We are trying to get guys to work hard all the time. There are new guys coming in and they all seem to be willing to work hard for each other. That’s the important thing and no one was shirking their duties.”

Monaghan boss Seamus McEnaney had no problem praising Dublin after his team’s defeat and said, “Dublin worked very hard.

“They have a new group of players there who are prepared to go to the end of the line. Monaghan went a point up at one stage and there was a time down the years where Dublin would have gone away at that stage but they came back harder and faster.

“We’re disappointed. There was a time in the second half when we went a point up and it looked like Monaghan could go on and win it.”

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