Munster Championship Semi- Final

 

Limerick fall to one point extra time defeat against Tipperary

Limerick suffered an agonising one point defeat after extra time as Tipperary progressed to the Munster Senior Football final after extra time.

Billy Lee’s charges will rue letting a seven point half-time lead slip while they also led by a point during the second period of extra time.

Ultimately it was Brian Fox’s score in the 89th minute that sealed Tipperary’s win, with Seamus O’Carroll seeing a late effort drop wide for Limerick as the Treaty men fell short in their quest to reach a first Munster final since 2010.

Tipperary started the game slightly brighter firing over and early free from Connor Sweeney.

The home side then started to settle with their first effort coming from Sean McSweeney before goalkeeper Donal O’ Sullivan spilt the posts with a long-range free.

The Premier County were the better of the sides after the water break with Sweeney pointing before Quinlivan’s goal effort was put over by the Limerick keeper.

After being kept scoreless for 12 minutes, Limerick managed to break through the away sides defence with Sean McSweeney slotting low into the net.

Tommie Griffin landed a monster point minutes later before Fahy netted a second goal after a fine crossfield ball.

Sweeney nailed another free, before Killian Ryan fired over the final score of the half for Limerick as they led by 2-6 to 0-5 at half time.

The visitors flew out of the blocks after the break, hitting 1-6 without any reply from the home side.

Sweeney and Lonergan slotted frees while Kevin Fahey came up from the back to add his name to the scorers.

Lonergan notched another free, with Sweeney getting a monster point from play.

The benches started to be emptied then with Tipp sub Liam Boland adding another score.

Just before the water break, Liam Casey palmed the ball into the Limerick net.

Limerick midfielder Darragh Treacy got the home side first point of the half.

With time almost up, Cian Sheehan scored to put Limerick one point up before Sweeney hit an outrageous free from the sideline to make the game go to extra time.

Scores were difficult to come by in extra time with Tipperary kicking the only score of the first period of extra time through Boland.

Limerick flew out the blocks after the break with McSweeney scoring from play before Donal O’Sullivan slotted a ’45.

Robbie Kiely responded to level the game, before Brian Fox’s late score ensured Limerick suffered a heart-breaking defeat.

Limerick: Donal O’Sullivan (0-2, 1f 1’45); Sean O’Dea, Brian Fanning, Paul Maher; Tony McCarthy, Killian Ryan (0-1), Gordon Brown; Darragh Treacy (0-1), Tommie Childs; Iain Corbett, Cillian Fahy (1-1), Adrian Enright; Hugh Bourke (0-2, both frees), Tommy Griffin (0-1), Sean McSweeney (1-2). Subs: Padraig de Brun for Adrian Enright (h-t), Danny Neville for Sean McSweney (50mins), Cian Sheehan (0-1) for Tommy Griffin (50mins), Bob Childs for Gordan Brown (54mins), Seamus O’Carroll for Killian Ryan (65mins), Michael Donovan for Tony McCarthy (6mins, e-t), Davey Lyons for Cillian Fahy (11mins, e-t), Sean McSweeney for Paul Maher (h-t, e-t).

Tipperary: Evan Comerford; Alan Campbell, Jimmy Feehan, Colm O’Shaughnessy; Bill Maher, Kevin Fahey (0-1), Robbie Kiely (0-1); Conal Kennedy, Liam Casey (1-0); Jack Kennedy (0-2, both frees), Colman Kennedy, Emmet Moloney; Jason Lonergan, Conor Sweeney (0-7, 0-5 frees), Michael Quinlivan (0-1). Subs: Brian Fox (0-1) for Jason Lonergan (h-t), Liam Boland (0-2) for Colm Kennedy (h-t), Riain Quigley for Jack Kennedy, inj (58mins), Kevin O’Halloran for Emmet Moloney (65mins), Tadhg Fitzgerald for Colm O’Shaughnessy (68mins), Colman Kennedy for Riain Quigley (6mins, e-t), Paudie Feehan for Kevin Fahy (11mins, e-t), Kevin O’Halloran for Liam Boland (18mins, e-t).

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