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23rd November 2014
05:41pm GMT

Their opponents in next month's final will be St Vincent's, who survived a scare in the second half to dispatch Garrycastle 3-09 to 1-10 at Parnell Park. Mossy Quinn got the hosts off to a great start with a goal just three minutes into the match. Shane Carthy got the Dubliners' second goal just before the interval to leave the scores 2-6 to 0-6 at half-time.
Dessie Dolan brought the Westmeath side back into the game with superb goal seven minutes after the break and Michael Monaghan drove the ball over the bar soon after to level the game. But Quinn came back to hit the back of the net again with five minutes left on the clock and Vincent's held on to secure the win.
In hurling, Ballyhale Shamrocks outclassed Kilmacud Crokes 2-15 to 0-12 to book their place in the Leinster SHC final against Kilcormac-Killoughey of Offaly. TJ Reid had an outstanding game, scoring 1-08 for the Kilkenny champions.
Shamrocks never went behind in this match but a lionhearted performance from the Dubliners meant that it wasn't necessarily an easy day at the office for Henry Shefflin and company. Shefflin bagged a goal after five minutes which really st the tone for the entire game and Shamrocks really caught fire towards the end of the half, largely due to Reid's free-taking prowess. They held a 2-09 to 0-06 lead at the interval.
Ballyhale stormed home to victory in the second half, with Crokes scoring just one point in the final quarter. The result never looked in doubt.
Eight minutes into the second stanza, though, Gary Sice fired home Corofin's first goal before setting up Ian Burke for a second, which saw the game off as a contest.
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