 Kilkenny's Eddie Keher was deployed closer to goal and finished the game with 2–9.A fifteen-point swing resulted in Kilkenny winning the game by 3–24 to 5–11.McDonnell was dropped from the Cork panel in 1973, however, he returned in 1975 and collected a third Munster medal following a 3–14 to 0–12 defeat of reigning provincial champions Limerick.