The Kerryman (North Kerry)

Minute by minute

- – Damian Stack

FIRST HALF

1- Dean Rock gets the Dubs up and running with a nice early score

5- Stephen O’Brien responds for Kerry to settle a few early nerves

7- Ciarán Kilkenny points for Dublin, in one of the first indication­s it was going to be a difficult day at the office for Fionn Fitzgerald

9- O’Brien has an outside chance for a goal, but before he can take it is called for over-carrying

11 - Darran O’Sullivan assists O’Brien for his second point of the day 15 - Peter Crowley gets up the pitch to score an inspiratio­nal point to give Kerry a slender lead 17 - Rock points a free for Dublin 18 - Colm Cooper scores a beautiful point for the Kingdom, getting out ahead of Philly McMahon

19 - The Dubs’ full-back Jonny Cooper makes an appearance in the Kerry half of the field and leaves with a point

22 - Kilkenny gets his second point of the game

23 - Cooper sets up O’Sullivan for his first of the game

24 - Bryan Sheehan gets off the mark with a well struck free. Kerry again in front, if only just

26 - Denis Bastick feeds Bernard Brogan and the Oliver Plunketts man fires Dublin level

27 - Brian Fenton points for the Dubs

28 - Brogan is at it again, Dublin are now two in front

29 - Donnchadh Walsh responds for Kerry with a trademark point

30 - Paul Mannion points to fire Dublin two in front again

31 - Brogan has an outside chance of a goal, but opts for a point

33 - With Donaghy having made the switch to full-forward around this time Sheehan points another free Half-time - Kerry 0-8 Dublin 0-10

SECOND HALF

35 - Pretty much straight from the throw-in – as in the first half – Dublin score a point, this time through Diarmuid Connolly 37 - Rock points another free 39 - Crowley responds for Kerry, another inspiratio­nal point from the Laune Rangers man

44 - Killian Young replaces Fitzgerald

45 - Donaghy points for Kerry to move them back to within two points of Dublin who are moving ominously well

46 - Darran O’Sullivan floats over his second of the game

47 - Rock responds with another free for the Dubs

48 - Michael Darragh Mcauley replaces Bastick

50 - Aidan O’Mahony is sent to the line on a straight red card for a foul on Jonny Cooper 51 - Brendan Kealy saves from John Small as Paul Murphy drops deeper to take up the slack left by O’Mahony’s dismissal

53 - Kevin McManamon replaces Connolly / Brendan O’Sullivan replaces Walsh

54 - Murphy points for Kerry to make it, remarkably, a one point game

57 - Kevin McManamon points for Dublin 58 - Dublin earn a penalty as a shot for a point hits off the upright and Shane Enright fouls Paul Mannion in the area / Rock sends the penalty over the bar for a point 59 - Cormac Costello replaces Rock / Jonathan Lyne replaces Griffin 61 - Sheehan points a free from distance

62 - Barry John Keane replaces O’Brien / Pádraig O’Connor replaces Crowley / Michael Fitzsimons replaces McMahon

63- Brogan fires Dublin to a three point lead

65 - Costello makes an impact with a nice point for the Dubs

66 - A miscommuni­cation from Brendan Kealy leads to Paul Flynn claiming his kick-out unconteste­d. The Dublin wing-forward powered toward goal and took one too

67 - Eric Lowndes replaces Mannion / McManamon scores his second

68 - Mikey Geaney replaces Murphy / Darren Daly replaces Small

72 - Brogan sets up second half sub Lowndes for a goal to wrap up the scoring Full-time - Kerry 0-13 Dublin 2-18

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