St Kieran's 1-15 St Colman's: Leinster champions St Kieran's, who lost by a point in last year's decider, avenged that defeat when they handed holders St Colman's an 11-point drubbing in this one-sided All-Ireland Colleges A Senior hurling final at Clonmel on Saturday.
The Fermoy side, who were chasing a hat-trick of titles, were overrun by the free-scoring St Kieran's in the opening 30 minutes and faced an uphill battle when they trailed 0-10 to 0-1 and were down to 14 men going into the second-half.
Just before the break, midfielder Seamus Stack was replaced by blood substitute Mark Cleary who got his marching orders when red-carded after 20 seconds.
Centre forward Fergus Brown had been withdrawn when St Colman's restarted with Stack back at midfield and within a minute of the throw-in Eoin Reid killed off the Cork team's challenge when he bagged a goal for St Kieran's.
Their influential midfield captain, James Fitzpatrick, made it 1-11 to 0-1 with his third point and there was no way back for the Cork boys.
Goalkeeper Denis Fitzgerald found the Kilkenny team's net with a long-range free in the 43rd minute and St Colman's had late consolation points from Pat Kirby, Paul Kearney and Andrew O'Shaughnessy.
ST KIERANS: J Connolly; D Cody, J Tennyson, N Prendergast; P Butler, D Prendergast, J Walsh; J Fitzpatrick (0-4), D O'Neill (0-2); J Murphy (0-1), E O'Gorman (0-1), R Power (0-4, 0-3f); M Nolan (0-1), E Reid (1-0), M Bergin (0-2). Subs: K Lanigan for J Murphy; D Bergin for M Nolan; J O'Farrell for P Butler; S Prendergast for R Power; J Quane for M Bergin.
ST COLMANS: D Fitzgerald (1-0f); C O'Connell, B Lane, E Condon; K O'Mahony, A Kearney, J O'Donnell; S Stack, P Cotter; C Coakley, P Kearney (0-1), P Kirby (0-1); A O'Shaughnessy (0-2), M Allen, F Brown. Sub: S Barrett for P Cotter.
Referee: Sean McMahon (Clare)
Castlecomer CS completed the Kilkenny double when they outplayed St Joseph's to win by 1-12 to 1-8 in a competitive All-Ireland Colleges B Senior hurling final at Clonmel.
The sides were tied on four points apiece at the break with Eoin McGrath leading the way for the eventual winners and Danial Shanahan pointing four frees for the Tipperary side.
With McGrath chalking up four more points and Martin Boran getting his second, Castlecomer were leading 0-9 to 0-6 on 48 minutes when Willie Ryan of St Joseph's slammed home a penalty goal to tie the game.
St Joseph's went two points up with scores from Shanahan and David Young; but Castlecomer were back in the game when Gavin Nolan's and Boran's points squared it again 1-8 to 0-11.
In the 50th minute Damian Fogarty netted for the deciding goal.
CASTLECOMER CS: D Shore; P Shortall, J Staunton, T Nolan; P Nolan, P O'Donovan, R Maher; J Maher, D Fogarty (1-0); D Stone (0-1), E McGrath (0-7, 6f), S Allen; G Nolan (0-1), C Kinsella, M Boran (0-3). Sub: P Brennan for D Stone.
ST JOSEPHS: P Bourke; E Woodlock, D Kerins, M Butler; B O'Sullivan, P Stapleton, D Kennedy; J Woodlock, B Graydon; J Maher, A Kinane, D Young (0-1); W Ryan (1-0 pen), E Costello, D Shanahan (0-7, 5f). Subs: J Hogan for E Costello; E Russell for J Maher.
Referee: John Sexton (Limerick)
