Tony Brosnan does the damage as Crokes dethrone Castlehaven

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-15 Castlehaven (Cork) 1-8

It was Killarney. It was a balmy 14°C. Tony Brosnan starred with 1-07. It was a Kerry win.

One could have thought it was Cork vs Kerry in the Munster SFC in springtime.

It was, however, Kerry kingpins Dr Crokes who got the better of reigning Munster club champions Castlehaven by seven points in a fiercely-contested provincial quarter-final.

The sides were level on four separate occasions in the opening half, but a late Charlie Keating point gave Crokes the narrowest of leads at the break – 0-06 to 0-05, before the Kerry champions outscored their Cork counterparts by 1-09 to 1-03 in the second period, boosted by 1-02 in the opening minutes of the final half hour.

Castlehaven had travelled to Dr Crokes' home patch looking to continue their search for back-to-back Munster Senior Club football titles for the first time in their history. Eight-time Munster champions Dr Crokes had other ideas, however.

Boosted by a vocal home support, Dr Crokes started the game the brighter and were two points to the good inside the opening five minutes thanks to close-range frees from Kerry stars Micheál Burns and

Superb long-range efforts from Cathal Maguire and Andrew Whelton had the Cork champions level by the seventh minute, before Brian Hurley slotted over a free from out wide a minute later to put Castlehaven ahead for the first time.

Kerry star Brosnan was influential, scoring three important points as both were level three more times in the opening 30 minutes.

Three minutes after the restart, Crokes extended their winning margin to four when Brosnan coolly slotted home a penalty.

Referee Seán Lonergan was left with no choice but to award the penalty after Cian McMahon, who had picked up a lovely