Cork hurlers' conversion rates across 2025 championship season

It was a miserable way to end the season from a Cork perspective. That second-half performance was far from what anyone was targeting. It hurts, for players and fans. But try not to let it overshadow Cork’s performances and results this season.

It’s been a great campaign, the best that Cork have produced in quite some time. League and Munster honours are not the worst way to round it off, that’s for sure.

But going through Cork’s individual performances and the conversion rate of every player, you can get a better look at each player’s individual performances and what they contributed, at least in front of the posts.

It is, of course, not the best metric for judging substitutes or defenders, or even forwards whose primary role isn’t a shooting one.

Of the players who attempted more than five shots throughout the campaign, only three had a conversion rate of over 80%. Only one of those – Diarmuid Healy – was a starter. This year’s debutant attempted 10 shots and scored eight of those, while of the regular starters, Alan Connolly ranks highest.

His 70% conversion rate is the highest of those who attempted more than 10 shots, with Connolly converting 14 of his 20 attempts.

The next best Cork forward from play was Patrick Horgan, who scored 14 of 22 efforts and finished with an overall score of just over 63%. From placed balls, his accuracy comes in just shy of 77%.

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Tim O’Mahony matched Hoggy with 63%, while Declan Dalton comes just shy of the two with 61%.

Séamus Harnedy and Brian Hayes attempted and converted the same number of shots, 24 and 14, leaving the pair with scores of 58%.

Shane Barrett was next best with a 55% conversion rate, scoring 15 out of 27 efforts, while Darragh Fitzgibbon (48.14%) and Mark Coleman (40%) were the only two to register under the 50% mark.

To be fair to Coleman, though, he did only attempt the minimum number of five shots, of which he scored two.

When compared to last season, Hayes attempted far more shots but converted one less than last year, giving him a percentage decrease of over 20%. Barrett, Fitzgibbon, Coleman, and Harnedy all suffered decreases, while Kingston, Connolly, O’Mahony, Dalton, Horgan, and Lehane all improved on last season.

1 Shane Kingston – 85.71% 

0-6 (6/7) 

2 Diarmuid Healy – 80.00% 

0-8 (8/10) 

3 Conor Lehane – 80.00% 

0-3 (4/5) 

(0% conversion rate from placed balls) 0-0 (0/1) 

4 Alan Connolly – 70.00% 

4-10 (14/20) 

5 Patrick Horgan – 63.63% 

2-12 (14/22) 

(76.78% conversion rate from placed balls) 

1-42 (43/56) 

6 Tim O’Mahony – 63.63% 

3-4 (7/11) 

7 Declan Dalton – 61.53% 

1-7 (8/13) 

(75.00% conversion from placed balls) 

0-6 (6/8) 

8 Séamus Harnedy – 58.33% 

0-14 (14/24) 

9 Brian Hayes – 58.33% 

5-9 (14/24) 

10 Shane Barrett – 55.55% 

2-13 (15/27) 

11 Darragh Fitzgibbon – 48.14% 

0-13 (13/27) 

(60.00% conversion rate from placed balls) 

0-4 (3/5) 

12 Mark Coleman – 40.00% 

0-2 (2/5) 

(0% conversion rate from placed balls) 

0-0 (0/2) 

N/A (attempted fewer than five shots across the seven games) 

Tommy O’Connell – 100.00% 0-2 (2/2) 

Jack O’Connor – 100.00% 0-1 (1/1) 

Eoin Downey – 100.00% 0-1 (1/1) 

Niall O’Leary – 100.00% 0-1 (1/1) 

Robert Downey – 100.00% 0-1 (1/1) 

Brian Roche – 66.66% 0-2 (2/3) 

Robbie O’Flynn – 50.00% 0-2 (2/4) 

Damien Cahalane – 50.00% 0-1 (1/2) 

Cormac O’Brien – 33.33% 0-1 (1/3) 

Ciarán Joyce – 33.33% 0-1 (1/3) 

Ger Millerick – 0.00% 0-0 (0/1) 

Seán O’Donoghue – 0.00% 0-0 (0/1) 

Ethan Twomey – 0.00% 0-0 (0/1) 

Patrick Collins – 0.00% 0-0 (0/1) 

(0% conversion rate from placed balls) 0-0 (0/1)