Austin Stacks v Kerins O’Rahillys
Date: 03/05/26
Venue: Connolly Park
Throw In 2-00pm
Stacks made it three wins on the trot with victory over local rivals Kerins O’Rahillys and move up to third place three points behind Kenmare Shamrocks in the County League.
Jordan Kissane had Stacks opening point and straight from the kickout O’Rahills Conor Hayes worked his way through for a goal all inside one minute of play.
Darragh O’Connor pointed a free but back came Stacks with points from Eoghan Carroll and Michael O’Donnell after a good solo run. Darragh O’Connor made it a two point game only for Stacks to hit six unanswered points from Colm Browne,Luke Casey and two each from Conor Horan and Ryan O’Driscoll making it Stacks 0-9 to O’Rahillys 1-2 after twenty one minutes of play.
Darragh O’Connor with two pointed frees and another from Gearoid Savage made it a one point game and just before the interval Jack Murphy fisted a Stacks point.
Half Time Austin Stacks 0-10 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-5
Greg Horan opened the scoring just after half time and that was quickly cancelled out by the first of four Darragh O’Connor two pointer frees.
Good link play by Michael O’Donnell and Cian Purcell was finished to the net by Shane Calla leaving four points between the sides.
Ryan O’Driscoll,Cian Purcell,Ryan again and a Michael Tansley forty five made it a eight point game midway through the half.
Darragh O’Connor’s two pointer free was cancelled out with points from Calla and Ryan,Conor free and a Cian point leaving ten points between the sides.
Michael O’Donnell and Conor Horan increased Stacks lead down the home Straight and in Injury time Darragh O’Connor pointed 2x2ptf to put a respectable score on the board.
Full Time Austin Stacks 1-21 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-13
Austin Stacks Team: Michael Tansley (0-1/45),Colin Griffin,Colm Browne (0-1)
Jack Murphy (0-1),Eoghan Carroll (0-1),Luke Casey (0-1),Ronan Shanahan,Michael O’Donnell (0-2),Greg Horan (0-1),Gavin Casey,Conor Horan (0-4,2f),David Fitzmaurice,Jordan Kissane (0-1),Cian Purcell (0-2),Ryan O’Driscoll (0-5,2f).
Subs Shane O’Callaghan (1-1) for Gavin Casey,Fiachna Mangan for Jordan Kissane,Adam Curran for David Fitzmaurice,Sean Og Brosnan for Colin Griffin,
Conor Myers for Ryan O’Driscoll.
Kerins O’Rahillys Team: Ruairi Kennedy,Jake Foley,Padraig Griffin,Brayden Pierce,TJ Heaphy,Daniel Bowler,Tom Hoare,Ben O’Brien,Gearoid Savage, (0-1f),Barry John Keane,Shane McElligott,Nick Lacey,Conor Hayes (1-0),Darragh O’Connor (0-12,4x2ptf,3f).
Subs Ryan Carroll,Jake Hoare,Stephen Nix,Conor O’Sullivan.
Referee Evan Horan Glenflesk
Report by Tim Slattery