While Graham Doyle had had a quiet first half in the Wexford goal, his second half display was a man-of-the-match effort as Wexford tried hard to defend a one goal lead. On four minutes, Cork had a free header at the far post but it was sent wide beyond the other post.Midway through the second half, Doyle pulled off a wondrous save to deny a point-blank header by Sean Maguire. Two minutes later, Graham pushed over his own bar another Cork header which was going in. Then, with 23 minutes gone, a Cork effort on goal hit the underside of the crossbar but stayed out. Marky O'Sullivan had come on for Cork by this point, and he stretched very hard to reach a Cork cross from the right but could only manage to steer it wide of the left post with 20 minutes to go in the match. Andy Mulligan then came on in place of Ryan Delaney for the Youths when, with five minutes to go, and with Cork applying all the pressure, a cross to the far post was headed home by O'Sullivan to get Cork the equaliser and a share of the points. Late substitutions for Wexford were Danny Ledwith and Conor O'Keeffe while the ref also flashed yellows to Eric Molloy for time-wasting and Lee Grace for Wexford and O'Sullivan for Cork for something confrontational between the two.
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