Minute by minute

FIRST HALF 1- David Moran finds Paul Geaney who gets the Kingdom up and running / Still in the game’s second minute Paul Geaney finds cousin Mikey who kicks a sweet point. Kerry are motoring well

2- James O’Donoghue takes an early oppor tunity to stamp his authority on the Munster final. Kerry lead by three and the clock still hasn’t ticked into the four th minute 3- Paul Geaney makes it four onthe-trot for the Kingdom

8- Mark Collins arrests the slide for the Rebels with a fine point and just in the nick of time / Down the other end Kevin McCar thy is fouled and O’Donoghue points the free confidently 10- O’Donoghue picks out Anthony Maher and the Duagh man sends over a well taken point from the stand side into the scoreboard end 11- Ian Maguire shrugs off the attentions of David Moran and crafts for himself a goal-scoring oppor tunity. Brian Kelly is equal to it and the chance peters out to nothing 14- Collins points his second free to double Cork’s tally

16- O’Donoghue points another free after Kieran Donaghy is fouled

19- Paul Geaney conver ts a free to stretch Kerry’s lead to six

20- Niall Coakley points a free for Cork

22- Maguire scores a well-earned point from play

24- Coakley points his second free of the game

26- O’Donoghue and Paul Murphy combine to fashion a goal chance for Paul Geaney but Ken O’Halloran pulls off a great save

28- Paul Murphy sets up O’Donoghue for a point from play 29- Alan O’Connor comes into the Cork side in place of Ruairí Deane as a blood sub. He remained on until the half-time break

30- Luke Connolly conver ts a free 33- McCar thy assists Donaghy for the Austin Stacks man’s first point of the game

35- Maguire assists Tomás Clancy for a lovely point for Cork

35 (+1) - Kerry round out the half with a point from Paul Geaney, assist James O’Donoghue Half-time - Kerry 0-11 Cork 0-7 SECOND HALF Stephen O’Brien replaces Donnchadh Walsh and Donncha O’Connor replaces Niall Coakley during the half-time break 35- O’Brien makes an instant impact for Kerry with a brilliant point 36- After Ken O’Halloran makes an ill-advised excursion into the halfback line and is turned over, Moran points for the Kingdom

37- O’Brien makes it a double score game – four teen to seven – with a fisted point

38- Kerry all but kill off the game as a contest when O’Donoghue points from play to make it an eight point game / O’Connor replaces Deane on a full-time basis

39- Tomás Clancy gets in behind the Kerry cover and goes for goal. Alas his effor t finds only the sidenetting

40- Donaghy assists Murphy for the Rathmore man’s first point of the game / Kerry captain Johnny Buckley replaces McCar thy / Colm O’Driscoll replaces Michael Shields 43- Cork finally get up and running in the second half when Donncha O’Connor conver ts a free 44- O’Connor quickly doubles his tally with a fisted effor t. Just before it appeared as though there was an outside chance of a goal for Paul Kerrigan / Michael Hurley replaces Kevin O’Driscoll / Fionn Fitzgerald picks up a seriously looking injury the necessitates a long break in play

49- Killian Young replaces Fitzgerald

53- James O’Donoghue has a goal chance saved and out for a for ty five (Paul Geaney had he got a pass would surely have scored) / Mikey Geaney conver ts the ‘45

55- O’Donoghue points a free / Paul Kerrigan gets his first score of the game

58- Jack Barry replaces Maher 61- Eoin Cadogan replaces Jamie O’Sullivan who picked up a black card

62- O’Donoghue points a free / Barry John Keane replaces O’Donoghue / Stephen Cronin replaces James Loughrey 63- A rare long-ball into Donaghy causes havoc in the Cork full-back line and Paul Geaney is alive to it to score a goal / Darran O’Sullivan replaces Donaghy

65- Jonathan Lyne replaces Mikey Geaney

66- Donncha O’Connor points from play

67- Donncha O’Connor points from a free

68- Barry John Keane secured his customary point off the bench

69- O’Brien capped another fine second half performance with his third from play

70 (+2) - Luke Connolly blasts over the bar with a goal on into the scoreboard end

70 (+5) - Paul Geaney points from play

70 (+8) - Shane Enright takes a point on a foray into enemy territory 70 (+10) - Donncha O’Connor rounds out the scoring with a free Full-time - Kerry 1-23 Cork 0-15 – Damian Stack