Month: September 2021

THURLES SARSFIELDS’ QUEST for a fifth Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship title remains alive, but only just, as they needed a Ronan Maher goal deep in injury time to see off the challenge of Kilruane MacDonaghs, 2-14 to 1-16, in the quarter final in Nenagh today.

Maher’s strike, his second in the space of ten minutes, rescued what appeared a desperate situation for the holders who trailed by seven points after 42 minutes after Brian O’Meara struck Kilruane’s goal to put them in a commanding position.

However, the Magpies would only add two more points in the game as Thurles’ experience came to the fore while their character was also tested and shone through impressively.

For so long, they struggled to develop the rhythm associated with them, although much of that was down to a Kilruane side whose high work-rate snuffed them out with Niall O’Meara and Justin Cahill on top in defence while Under 21 star Cian Dacy picked off Michael Cahill for four first half points as Kilruane led 0-10 to 0-7 at the break.

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In the first quarter final at MacDonagh Park, Toomevara withstood a fightback by fourteen man Drom & Inch to book their place in next weekends semi-finals, 3-15 to 1-20.

First half goals in the space of a minute from Jack Delaney and Mark McCarthy helped the greyhounds into a 2-8 to 0-7 half time advantage and it really should have been much more but for twelve wides.

Drom & Inch’s intensity was poor in the first half and when they were reduced to fourteen men within seconds of the restart following the dismissal of Michael Campion, their chances looked remote, but the red card sparked them into life and with Seamus Callanan hitting nine points, four from play, they cut the gap to four when Jack Delaney bagged Toome’s third goal on 41 minutes.

However, Drom didn’t yield but Toomevara managed to keep them at arms length until deep in injury time when David Collins fired home a fine goal but it proved to be a consolation as Toome progress to the last four.

The last remaining semi-final berths should be confirmed tomorrow afternoon when Kiladangan v Clonoulty/Rossmore and Nenagh Eire Og v Loughmore/Castleiney meet in Dolla.

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Ballyboden St Enda’s 3-13
Na Fianna 0-15

Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA’S gave notice of their championship intentions with a commanding seven-point victory over Na Fianna to seal a passage into the Dublin senior 1 football championship semi-finals.

The 2016 All-Ireland club champions easily took care of a Na Fianna outfit that were expected to give them a stern test in this last eight clash.

Basquel brothers Ryan (2-4) and Colm (1-2) scored 3-6 between them while veteran county hurler Conal Keaney kicked two points in a good display from centre-forward.

Ballyboden lost Dublin midfielder Michael Darragh Macauley to a second yellow card 10 minutes before the end, but the game was well wrapped up by that stage. Macauley was in good form at midfield up until his dismissal and helped his side establish a foothold in the middle third.

On this viewing, Ballyboden pose a serious threat to St Vincent’s and their three-in-a-row bid. They’ve got a team full of fine athletes with some devastating players in attack.

Ryan Basquel

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The 2015 Dublin champions had 3-11 on the board five minutes after half-time before they took the foot off the gas somewhat and protected their lead.

Na Fianna are seen as one of the coming teams in Dublin football with a strong underage crop breaking through, including breakthrough Dublin star Eoin Murchan, 2017 U21 Footballer of the Year Aaron Byrne and former Dublin minor wing-back Eoin O’Dea.

They also had Dublin’s Jonny Cooper and Conor McHugh in the team, but overall the Glasnevin side struggled with Ballyboden’s superior physicality. 

The sides were level after 0-4 apiece after a tight opening quarter but then Ballyboden’s forwards started to run riot. They scored 1-3 unanswered in a devastating five-minute spell, with the goal arriving from the boot of Ryan Basquel.

His brother Colm netted their second goal and Keaney clipped over a fine strike to leave Ballyboden 2-9 to 0-6 ahead at half-time.

Na Fianna’s Jonny Cooper

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Na Fianna lost full-back Murchan to injury at the break and they conceded a penalty shortly after half-time that Ryan Basquel stuck away. He added a point and Robbie McDaid clipped one over to leave their side 3-11 to 0-7 ahead after 35 minutes. 

From there Ballyboden sat deep and were content to allow Na Fianna pick off frees from distance. Michael Deegan, son of Dublin legend Mick, finished with five points while Dublin panellist Conor McHugh scored 0-7, but Na Fianna created little in the way of goal chances.

Ballyboden broke at pace for nice scores from Ryan Basquel and Keaney to round off the impressive win.

Scorers for Ballyboden St Enda’s: Ryan Basquel 2-4 (1-0 pen, 0-1f), Colm Basquel 1-2, Conal Keaney 0-2, Darren O’Reilly 0-2, Robbie McDaid 0-1, Shane Clayton 0-1.

Scorers for Na Fianna: Conor McHugh 0-7 (0-4f), Michael Deegan 0-5 (0-3f), Sean Caffrey 0-1, James Doran 0-1.

Ballyboden St Enda’s

1. Darragh Gogan

23. Cathal Flaherty 
4. Shane Clayton
7. Shane Durkin

12. Sean Gibbons
6. Darragh Nelson
17. Aran Waters

9. Michael D Macauley
8. Declan O’Mahoney

5. Robbie McDaid
15. Conal Keaney
10. Darren O’Reilly

13. Ross McGarry
11. Colm Basquel
14. Ryan Basquel

Subs

19. Alan Flood for McGarry (37)
22. James Holland for O’Mahoney (54)
20. Donogh McCabe for O’Reilly (58)
25. Kieran Kennedy for Flaherty (black-card, 61)
18. Sam Molony for Keaney (62)

Na Fianna

1. David O’Hanlon

7. Eoin O’Dea
6. Eoin Murchan
4. Senan Coughlan

3. Farrell Aughney 
5. Jonny Cooper
2. Philip Smith

8. Aengus Farrell
9. JJ Martin

10. Sean Caffrey
11. Michael Deegan
12. Glenn O’Reilly

15. James Doran

13. Aaron Byrne
14. Conor McHugh

 Subs

26. Paul O’Hanlon for Murchan (ht)
26. Killian Deeley for Farrell (33)
17. Alasdar Fitzgerald for Martin (33)
23. Eoin Connolly for Smith (39)
19. David Quinn for Doran (46)
30. Tim Foran for Caffrey (58)

Referee: Seamus Farrelly.

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THE ELECTRIC IRELAND Minor Star Awards Hurler and Footballer of the Year were announced today at the second annual Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards in Croke Park.

Kerry’s All-Ireland Minor winning forward, Paul Walsh was named as Electric Ireland Minor Footballer of the Year, with Galway Minor full forward Donal O’Shea securing the Electric Ireland Minor Hurler of the Year award.

Walsh was a key figure as Kerry secured their fifth Minor All-Ireland title. The Brosna clubman was the scorer of 1-7 in the Munster Minor Football final win over Clare and notched three points in the All-Ireland semi-final against Monaghan and another four as Galway were seen off in the All-Ireland decider.

Donal O’Shea had an equally impressive season for Galway’s Minor Hurlers. A tally of 1-37 across four wins en-route to the All-Ireland title is proof of the Salthill-Knocknacarra man’s impact, but his influence spread beyond the bare numbers.

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Metronomic from frees, his full-forward play was central to what was a well-oiled Tribesmen attacking unit. Man of the Match in the semi-final win over Dublin, he scored ten points as Kilkenny were beaten in the final to crown Galway back to back Minor All-Ireland Hurling Champions.

Walsh and O’Shea were announced as part of this year’s Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards today. The event celebrated the Minor Football and Hurling Teams of the Year, who were joined by their families and representatives from their County boards and management teams in Croke Park.

Galway legend Mattie Murphy was also honoured with the Electric Ireland Special Merit Award, presented to him by Minor Star Awards judge and former Galway hurler Ollie Canning, for his significant contribution to Minor Hurling having led Galway to six All-Ireland Minor titles during his reign as Manager with the county.

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The awards emphasise the best individual performers from the entire season. They also recognise the crucial and admirable part played by the families, club members and communities of players who have helped them to get to this point in their sporting career.

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The four-man awards selection panel who chose the awardees, was unveiled in May, consisting of former All-Star winning Tyrone football captain Sean Cavanagh, All-Star winning former Cork footballer Daniel Goulding, eight-time All-Ireland winning former Kilkenny hurler Michael Fennelly and four-time All-Star former Galway defender Ollie Canning.

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Electric Ireland 2018 GAA Minor Star Football Team of the Year

1. John Ball – Kildare, (Clane)
2. Ronan Grimes – Monaghan, (Killanny)
3. Owen Fitzgerald – Kerry, (Gneeveguilla)
4. Tiarnan Woods – Derry, (Drumsurn)
5. Colm Moriarty – Kerry, (Annascaul)
6. Tony Gill – Galway, (Corofin)
7. Mark Lavin – Dublin, (Lucan Sarsfields)
8. Darragh Rahilly – Kerry, (Rathmore)
9. Conor Raftery – Galway, (Northern Gaels)
10. Paul Walsh – Kerry, (Brosna)
11. Mathew Costello – Meath, (Dunshaughlin)
12. Aaron Mulligan – Monaghan, (Latton)
13. Luke Mitchell – Meath, (Dunshaughlin)
14. Eoin Darcy – Wicklow, (Tinahely)
15. Matthew Cooley – Galway, (Corofin)

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Electric Ireland 2018 GAA Minor Star Hurling Team of the Year

1. Patrick Rabbitte – Galway, (St. Mary’s)
2. Conor Whelan – Tipperary, (CJ Kickhams)
3. Shane Jennings – Galway, (Ballinasloe)
4. Jamie Young – Kilkenny, (O’Loughlin Gaels)
5. Darragh Maher – Kilkenny, (St. Lachtain’s)
6. Seán Neary – Galway, (Castlegar)
7. Seán Phelan – Tipperary, (Nenagh Eire OG)
8. Conor Kelly – Kilkenny, (O’Loughlin Gaels)
9. Donal Leavy – Dublin, (Naomh Olaf)
10. James Devaney – Tipperary, (Borris-Ileigh)
11. Cathal O’Neill – Limerick, (Crecora-Manister)
12. Ciarán Brennan – Kilkenny, (Bennettsbridge)
13. Luke Swan – Dublin, (Castleknock)
14. Donal O’Shea – Galway, (Salthill/Knocknacarra)
15. Dean Reilly – Galway, (Pádraig Pearses)

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TOM PARSONS IS targeting a comeback in the early part of next summer as he recovers from the devastating knee injury he suffered against Galway last May.

Parsons underwent the third and final surgery on his knee in Santry Sports Clinic recently, following the injury he sustained in Mayo’s Connacht semi-final defeat to the Tribesmen.

His year was ended when he dislocated his knee and ruptured three of the four ligaments in his knee, tearing the other. 

But the 30-year-old is on the mend and remains hopeful he could play a part in Mayo’s 2019 championship campaign.

“With these injuries, you take this on a week by week, month by month basis,” Parsons said at the launch of the GPA’s 2017 Annual Report.

“If you consider an ACL injury, that I reconstructed three weeks ago, combined with a PCL, the ACL advisory is seven to nine months. You’d certainly be erring on the side of the nine months with the complexity of it from my last surgery date which would bring me up to next June.

“But I could be training in other capacities in May of next summer. To be honest, the focus with injuries like this is you set your mini goals and they become your big focus.

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“Your end focus is your visualisation to play with Mayo, and the exact date or time or game, or how that happens, you certainly don’t set that. But I don’t want to rule myself out – I’ll hopefully feature for Mayo in 2019 in some capacity.”

The Charlestown clubman had ligaments grafted from other parts of his body, in addition to ligaments he received from a deceased donor. 

“I now have numerous body-parts of mine in my knee, including my hamstring, my quad, and actually a cadavers ligaments – somebody’s Achilles ligament in my knee.

“So depending on the quality of that ligament, I could be jumping even higher next year when I get back!” he quipped.

“Usually with an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) or PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) or a single or double ligament injury that needs a full reconstruction, they take grafts from your hamstrings and your quads, and they’ve done that with me.

“But the only other option is to go into my other leg or get a cadaver ligament. So it is common practice that they do that.

“I suppose it does come with a little bit more risk, that your body can accept that ligament. To date, we’re three and a half weeks post surgery, everything is going well and smoothly.

“It’s just amazing the science and technology behind rehab and surgery and physiotherapy. It’s amazing how the body can adapt to some of the movement patterns that I was doing in the gym and the rehab, before my last surgery was amazing. Right down to nearly a single leg squat on my bad leg. The body is amazing.

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“I’m 30, and the advantage of being 30, what that brings is probably more experience and patience in dealing with an injury like this. Nobody has the solution or the answer.

“You really need to go and get it and research it and you really need to be the driver of your own destiny here.

“I suppose, being 30 that has been a huge advantage to me because I’ve been able to take a real professional approach to it and a mature approach to it as well. I really don’t think I’ve rushed any stage and I don’t plan to.”

Parsons said the All-Ireland defeats Mayo have suffered in recent years helped strengthen his mental resolve and he used visualisation techniques to get himself through the tough times.

“I’ve now fully reconstructed all the ligaments in my knee, which is a stage which I’ve been visualising since day one because it’s been a gruelling process,” he explained.

“I’ve had three quite heavy surgeries over a prolonged period of three and a half months. It was a challenge, but it’s really promising that it’s all done and everything has gone to plan.

“A big part of sport is visualising yourself performing, visualising yourself on the big day. This week I was afforded the opportunity to put on the 2019 Mayo jersey. When I was asked to do that, I thought, ‘What better way, what better visualisation cue to have than a picture of me wearing the 2019 Mayo jersey?’

“That will give me huge motivation and drive to really focus on my recovery, to hopefully put on that jersey next summer.”

Jean de Villiers in action for South Africa in 2015

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The midfielder also revealed Munster and South Africa legend Jean de Villiers was among those in touch with him during his lengthy rehab.

“The difficulty is being uncomfortable, trying to get the quality sleep that you need to recover from any injury. That has been a challenge. But in terms of my rehab and the support network I’ve had around me, it’s just been fantastic.

“My wife being a physio, linking up with the Mayo medical team, the surgeons and the physios in Santry, credit to Ray Moran who has led that team, right down to having conversations with Eoghan Masterson of Connacht Rugby, Jean de Villiers of South Africa Rugby, who have all given me their advice and consultation on the best ways to overcome this injury.

“So I have a huge and fantastic support network which is so important to overcome any injury.

“A best buddy of mine, Joe McBrien, a club footballer, contacted him (de Villiers) through a social media platform.

“Fair play to Jean, he sent me a fantastic, motivating, inspiring letter about the story of his recovery to come back at the age of 34, to play in the World Cup. The injuries were very similar, his reconstruction was fully artificial, which was different to mine.

Eoghan Masterson in action for Connacht

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“Another guy, Eoghan Masterson who plays with Connacht Rugby, has visited me two or three times, even in Santry.

“It’s amazing the goodwill from people, not only in the GAA community but in other sport codes in Ireland. In this case, a sport code totally disconnected from Gaelic game, and not even in Ireland, a guy who has given his time.

“Not only that, but his physiotherapist who rehabbed him is also sending regular information back to my wife Carol, tips and processes and procedures in rehab of this injury. It’s very encouraging, and it’s inspiring that these guys take the time out to respond to you.

“I hope that if I can bounce back from this I can repeat that gesture of goodwill to maybe another guy who’s struggling and I’ll be sure to do that.”

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SIMONSTOWN GAELS SUFFERED a 2-16 to 0-8 beating at the hands of Dunboyne in the Meath SFC semi-final today. 

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Dunboyne went in at half-time behind by 0-7 to 0-3 after playing against the breeze, but they outscored the champions by 2-13 to 0-1 in a dominant second period. 

Meath star Donal Lenihan clipped over seven points while Robert McCarthy bagged 1-4 for Dunboyne.

Meanwhile, in the Roscommon SFC, champions St Brigid’s sealed a return to the final with a 0-10 to 0-7 win over Strokestown this afternoon.

In the Kildare SFC quarter-finals, Naas beat St Laurences by 1-13 to 2-7 and Celbridge enjoyed a 1-15 to 0-10 win over Carbury. Molhill advanced to the Leitrim SFC final after a 3-19 to 0-11 semi-final win over Glencar-Manorhamilton.

In the Kilkenny SHC first round replay, Erin’s Own ran out 1-13 to 0-14 winners against Carrickshock.

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Dingle 3-9
Austin Stacks 0-9

THREE FIRST-HALF goals – including a double from Paul Geaney – ensured Dingle were the first team into the Kerry county senior football championship semi-finals after they accounted for 2014 county champions Austin Stacks in a temperamental game in Tralee this evening.

Dingle sprung a surprise before throw-in with the inclusion of AFL player Marc O’Connor in their starting team, and the gamble paid off to a certain extent.

The former Kerry minor team captain and current Geelong Cats player was detailed to play in a sweeper role in front of Kieran Donaghy and he fulfilled the task quite well, despite not having played a competitive Gaelic football match for almost two years.

However, the 21-year only lasted 45 minutes on the field before being black-carded for an off the ball foul that led to a massed brawl after Kieran Donaghy took exception to O’Connor’s foul. By that stage Dingle were still fairly much in control, leading 3-5 to 0-8, having led 3-4 to 0-3 at half time.

The west Kerry club were leading 0-3 to 0-1 when Geaney gathered a rebound off a post and smashed the ball to the Stacks net, and five minutes later Paul Geaney flicked his cousin Mikey’s high ball in off a post and Matthew Flaherty reacted best to poke the loose ball to the net to make it 2-3 to 0-1.

Stacks engineered a couple of points but their defence was caught badly again when Paul Devane’s inviting ball across goal was slapped to the net by Paul Geaney to leave Dingle well in control at the interval, leading by 10 points.

Stacks started the second half with four points in the first seven minutes, and O’Connor’s dismissal should have helped the Tralee club further, but they never really threatened for a goal that they desperately needed.

Kerry defender Tom O’Sullivan scored three points for Dingle in the second half as they closed out the game against a Stacks team that saw their championship peter out in the most disappointing fashion. 

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Kerins O’Rahillys 3-11
St Brendans 1-15

Despite scoring just four points in the second half Kerins O’Rahillys booked their place in the semi-finals of the Kerry county SFC after a jittery two-point win over divisional team St Brendans in what was, in essence, a Tralee derby.

O’Rahillys laid the platform for victory with three goals in the opening quarter as they threatened to have this contest done and dusted by half time – and they should have had – but they made hard work of it for themselves in the second half as St Brendan launched a staunch comeback.

St Brendans opened the scoring but David Moran struck for an O’Rahillys goal when play resumed after an injury delay, and then substitute Tom Hoare lashed in a second to make it 2-1 to 0-2. Moments later Tommy Walsh flicked an under-hit Jack Savage free to the net and the club side were coasting, 3-3 to 0-3, after 16 minutes.

A Niall Sheehy goal in the 24th minute helped St Brendans close the margin to a more manageable five points, 3-7 to 1-8, at half time, but O’Rahillys looked the more capable side, with Moran dominating at midfield in the absence of his Kerry midfield partner, Jack Barry, for St Brendans.

Savage converted a couple of frees in the third quarter for O’Rahillys but St Brendans had the deficit down to two points, 3-9 to 1-13, at the three-quarter mark as O’Rahillys couldn’t buy a score.

Gavin O’Brien had the ball in the net for the Tralee club but it was disallowed for a square ball, but St Brendans couldn’t manufacture the second goal they so desperately needed, and late scores from defenders Cormac Coffey and Karl Mullins pushed O’Rahillys over the winning line and into the last four.

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SEAN CAVANAGH SAYS he hasn’t watched back the video footage of an incident which left him hospitalised after Tyrone SFC action with his club Moy.

The former Tyrone captain suffered a broken nose, concussion and extensive facial injuries in a loss to Edendork on 15 September, a game which was marred by scenes of violence and hit the headlines as a staggering 27 cards were dished out.

Officials ruled that the incident involving Cavanagh merited no on-field sanction, and this decision was backed following an investigation by Tyrone’s Competitions Control Committee (CCC).

They ruled that the injuries were accidental and confirmed that there would be no disciplinary action, but Moy are appealing the decision.

Cavanagh’s club released a statement on Tuesday after watching video footage, expressing their ‘disappointment and dismay’ and calling on officials to ‘review the footage again to reconsider their opinion’.

Yesterday, three-time All-Ireland winner Cavanagh revealed that he was yet to see the footage, has no intentions to do so but ‘has to go with’ his club’s interpretation.

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“No, I haven’t seen the footage,” he said at the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards in Croke Park. “If you were involved in a car crash I’m not sure why you would want to see it again.

“I know some of our club members saw it on Monday night past. They released a statement on it and I have to go with what they saw but I haven’t, and I’ve no real burning ambition to do so. I’m just focused on recovering.”

And so it continues 😨😨@KCsixtyseven Edendork played Moy today in the Tyrone senior championship first round
20 yellows -6 reds-1 Black
And Sean Cavanagh transported away to hospital in an ambulance. The man that inflicted the injury did not receive a card of any description pic.twitter.com/gOWQdhLVoc

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He added, staying coy on Moy’s decision to appeal:

“It’s like anything, I know there’s going be a level of interpretation involved. I’m sure if you talked to someone in the Moy, they will tell you something different than someone from Edendork.

“I am just letting that process happen and just trying to keep my head down, trying to clear my head as much as anything else. (I’m) still suffering a little bit from concussion and still a wee bit off but thankfully on the mend.

“(I’m) not looking as bad and not giving my wife that much grief about medication and stuff, her as a GP as well. Look, just trying to get on with things.”

While there have been some high profile incidents and violent scenes in Tyrone and Ulster club football over the past few weeks, Cavanagh feels that it’s an issue across the entire country.

“I think it’s probably all football,” he said. “I think in Tyrone, sometimes maybe we’re not good at the PR side of things and we don’t do ourselves any favours but I think there’s certainly some nasty things that happen in Gaelic football fields up and down the country.

“If incidents that happen in Tyrone are highlighted that maybe helps awareness in other counties as well, because I think sometimes it’s a cultural thing in the GAA and in Ireland that we’re maybe happy to let incidents get out of control and turn into mass brawls.”

He’s called for a second referee in conversation with The42 before and reiterated that isdea, saying that the standard of officiating needs to improve and that taking harder stances on sanctions may also resolve some issues.

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While still recovering from his injuries, Cavanagh, who was player-manager for Moy this year, has one eye on 2019 and his return to the club scene.

“I enjoyed doing a bit of both and seeing the other side,” he said. “We’ve a good group of lads in the Moy and it’s just disappointing the way the year ended that I couldn’t… I left the field after 15 minutes and it turned into a bit of a messy game obviously.

“But look I’ve enjoyed it and I would be an optimistic person by nature so I think playing county football for so long and seeing so many highs and lows allows you to move on quite quickly.

“So after a couple of days of feeling sore with the whole thing, mentally and physically, I’m now at the stage where I am looking forward rather than behind, that’s what an awful lot of sports players can do.

“I’m quite good at that.”

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Kilmacud Crokes 2-17
St Sylvester’s 0-15

Stephen O’Meara reports from Parnell Park

BOOSTED BY THE return of Paul Mannion to the starting line-up since their most recent championship outing, Kilmacud Crokes — still without Cian O’Sullivan — were in fine form as they progressed past St Sylvester’s in today’s Dublin SFC quarter-final.

Though both sides had topped their groups, Crokes were the significant favourites going into this one and that was reflected by the opening half as the Stillorgan men ran up a 0-10 to 0-4 half-time lead.

Paul Mannion started at 11 but constantly drifted in and out of the full forward line, as Callum Pearson, wearing 14, was more frequently found out around the middle third.

With patient and methodical build up play, Crokes would take a 0-7 to 0-1 lead by the 12th minute, before Sylvester’s had even deployed their target man, Jack Hazley, to full forward.

An impressive eight different Crokes men scored in the opening half, six of them from play, with Mannion and Shane Horan notching two each.

The Malahide men would rue three first-half missed frees by the end, having reduced the margin to two points, 0-16 to 0-14 by the 52nd minute with Hazley at full forward and Michael McCarthy in the corner, springing into life in the second half.

Kilmacud Crokes’ Craig Dias and Johnny Peacock of St. Sylvesters in action.

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However, a dubiously awarded penalty for Crokes in the 58th minute was converted by Mannion, soon followed by another Croke’s goal for Pearson to wrap things up at 2-17 to 0-15.

Scorers for Kilmacud Crokes : Callum Pearson 1-3, Paul Mannion 1-2 (1 pen), Shane Horan 0-3, Shane Cunningham 0-3, Pat Burke 0-2 (2f), Andy McGowan 0-1, Craig Dias 0-1, Cian O’Connor 0-1 (1 45), Stephen Williams 0-1

Scorers for St Sylvesters : Ed Walsh 0-7 (4f), Michael McCarthy 0-6 (1f), Jack Hazley 0-2

Kilmacud Crokes

1. David Nestor

2. Liam Flatman
3. Andy McGowan
19. Aidan Jones

5. Cian O’Connor
6. Ross McGowan
7. Ronan Ryan

8. Craig Dias
9. Conor Casey

10. Shane Cunningham
11. Paul Mannion
12. Shane Horan

13. Pat Burke
14. Callum Pearson
17. Dara Mullin

Subs

Cillian O’Shea for Ryan (43)
Stephen Williams for Burke (45)
Nathan Nolan for Jones (53)
Kevin Dyas for Flatman (60)
James Murphy for R McGowan (60)

St Sylvester’s

1. Mark Shiel

17. Paudi White
5. James Walsh
4. Johnny Peacock

6. Gavin McArdle
10. Glen Hazley
7. Ciarán McArdle

9. Karl Archibald
19. Ed Walsh

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23. Dan Brennan
11. Andrew Hartnett
12. Ronan Palmer

13. Alex Wright
8. Jack Hazley
15. Michael McCarthy

Subs

Andrew Cunningham for McArdle (43)
Jamie Kennedy for Andrew Hartnett (50)

Referee: James King

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DIARMUID CONNOLLY MADE his return to senior club football on Sunday afternoon, coming off the bench during St Vincent’s emphatic Dublin Senior Club Football Championship quarter-final win against Castleknock.

Connolly was named on the bench for the final eight clash at Parnell Park and made his entrance to replace Eamonn Fennell in the 54th minute.

The 31-year-old was not involved as Dublin recorded their fourth consecutive All-Ireland title earlier this month against Tyrone.

The forward has not played club football for St Vincent’s since last November and last lined out for Dublin in February during a National Football League meeting with Mayo in Castlebar.

Connolly spent last summer in the United States, where he won a championship title with Donegal club Boston GAA.

Diarmuid Connolly coming on for @StVincentsGAA1 He’s baaack! @DublinGAA #DublinSFC pic.twitter.com/JnAUTjiH9P

— Gearóid Óg (@gearoid_og) September 30, 2018

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East Kerry 4-12
South Kerry 2-10

TWO FIRST-HALF goals from Dara Roche laid the foundation for East Kerry to book their place in the last four of the Kerry SFC with an eight-point win over last year’s beaten county finalists South Kerry.

Dara Roche (file pic)

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A third goal from David Clifford — 10 minutes into the second half — killed off any chance of a South Kerry comeback, which was already on life-support when Oran Clifford was red carded in the opening seconds of the second half.

The first quarter couldn’t separate the teams as they stood on four points apiece after 17 minutes, and when Bryan Sheehan rolled in a goal for South Kerry in the 24th minute, East Kerry’s response was to score one of their own, through Roche, less than a minute later. Points from Dara Moynihan and Clifford had East Kerry 2-7 to 1-4 ahead at the interval.

South Kerry made three changes at the break but one of them, Oran Clifford, was less than a minute on the field when he was sent off for an incident with his namesake, Paudie.

David Clifford finds the back of the net for East Kerry! pic.twitter.com/4HA3JUxi7P

— The GAA (@officialgaa) September 30, 2018

East Kerry were 2-10 to 1-6 ahead when Roche fed David Clifford for an easy goal in the 40th minute. They completed an easier than expected win with a fourth goal from substitute Noel Duggan eight minutes from the end, despite a consolation goal from Ciaran Keating with the last kick of the game.

Dr Crokes 1-20
Legion 0-9

Earlier in the day Dr Crokes affirmed their status as top dog in Killarney with a routine and ruthless take down of their town rivals, Legion, in a disappointingly one-sided quarter-final. And the 14-point win sends a clear message to the other three teams left in the competition that the reigning county champions won’t be relinquishing their title without a serious challenge, despite an unsteady start to their defence.

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Dr Crokes (file pic).

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The opening point from Legion might have hinted at a competitive derby to come but the next 13 points came from Dr Crokes and that was pretty much the story of the first half. Tony Brosnan took up from where he left off in the third round win over West Kerry and scored six of those points, with a couple of converted frees from Daithi Casey and a brace from Brian Looney as Crokes took a 0-13 to 0-1 lead to the interval.

The first three points after the restart were Legion’s, including two from James O’Donoghue, but the comeback was short-lived when Looney rolled the ball past Kerry goalkeeper Brian Kelly after the ball had broke kindly to him off Brosnan and two Legion defenders.

That was game, set and match for Dr Crokes and it was simply a matter of how much they’d win by. Colm Cooper came in off the Dr Crokes bench to kick a point as Brosnan finished the game with nine scores.

Colm Cooper.

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O’Donoghue ended the game with six points but Legion never drew a save from Shane Murphy and they tamely exited the Championship after their early promise in the first two rounds.

Kerry SFC semi-final draw

• Kerins O’Rahillys v Dr Crokes
• Dingle v East Kerry

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