Ruairi Keating was the hero for Cork City as his 94th minute winner saw the Leesiders into the last four of the 2023 Sports Direct Men’s FAI Cup right as the game looked set for extra-time.

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  1. Some added context, because it's not clear from these highlights. For the Wexford goal, the passage of play follows an incident where a Cork City defender got injured and City kicked the ball out so that he could get medical attention. The injured defender eventually leaves the pitch and finishes his treatment on the sideline. Play resumes, Wexford throw the ball back to Cork City, as is the custom for fair play, when the ball is kicked out to allow physios on to the pitch. Wexford throw in, and then, not shown in the video, the ball is in mid-air at 00:01:50 in this video. You can see the sidelined player at the bottom right and acres of free space where a centre back should be. City are careless but Wexford press and take advantage of the missing defender. I felt it was un-sporting (I'm biased). Fair play to Wexford though.

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