A 78TH-MINUTE try from Cork Constitution's Cronan Healy was enough to sneak the two-time AIB League winners through to their fifth league final at Temple Hill yesterday. The home side's winger latched onto a crazy loose pass from UL Bohemians full-back Edwin Torrie inside his own half and punished the visitors' sloppiness with an impressive run to the line with three defenders trailing in this wake.

Overall, the result was harsh on a well organised and committed Bohs side but they only have themselves to blame for throwing away a four-point lead heading into the game's closing moments. In fairness, as good as the Limerick side were, Con started and finished this one impressively. Two Richard Lane penalties eased the home side into the game before Bohs gradually found their feet, and if they'd been a bit more clued in with the ball in hand, they could have crossed for a couple of tries early on too.

Instead Bohs worked their way into the game and although their line-kicking game was far from clever with the wind at their backs, they fared much better when they held onto the ball. As unlikely as it might have seemed early on, they scored the first try of the game on 15 minutes through Martin McPhail on the right wing. With Bohs still dominating, Lawlor dropped a beautiful goal to put his side 86 in front coming up to the interval and right on the stroke of half-time, seconds after he narrowly failed to land a penalty from inside his own half, Martin increased the Limerick side's lead to five points with a kick from the right of the posts. As you would expect, Con came out pretty riled up at the start of the second period. Within two minutes Lane knocked over a penalty to edge his side closer to their opponents and then, right on the hour mark, temporary replacement John Maloney was on-hand to finish off a move that involved some nice hands wide right. Three points down, Bohs could have been dead and buried but they picked themselves up on 64 minutes to set up Tommy O'Donnell for a well-worked try Four points up, an all Limerick final looked on the cards until Torrie made his error late on and Healy made him pay for it.

CORK CONSTITUTION D Hurley; R Lane, D O'Kane, T Gleeson, C Healy; D Lyons, P McKee; C Murphy, D Murray, T Ryan, R Noonan, S O'Connor, M O'Connell, B Cutriss, F Cogan (c) Subs T Ryan for Murphy, 49mins; E Leamy for Cutriss, 58mins; J Maloney for O'Connor, (58-63mins); R Quinn for Murray, 79mins; C Quaid for O'Kane, 83mins UL BOHEMIANS E Torrie; M McPhail, B Martin, C Finn, T Luke; F Lawlor, C Delooze; G Walsh, G Ryan, M Storey, B Madigan, R Hartigan, T O'Donnell, J O'Connor, J O'Neill Subs F Leonard for Ryan, 57mins; A Hartigan for O'Neill, 67mins; R Feeney for Storey, 71mins; I Hanley for Luke, 80mins Referee G Clancy (IRFU)