Football Championship Results
Sunday 17th July, 2005

Clan na Gael Avoid a Shut-Out
Ladies’ Junior Football Challenge Game
Fog City Harps 2-21 1-0 Clan Na Gael

Fog City ruled the roost throughout this game and took the majority of shots, but the majority of them went wide. For Clan na Gael, Esther O’Connor put in some nice handiwork to relieve her opponents of the ball, but this was the exception to the rule for the Clans who were just not getting to the ball on time either from the kickouts or from the breaking ball. However they did defend well and this accounted for at least half of the wides that Fog City were shooting.

In the second half Clan Na Gael were able to mount a few expeditions beyond their half of the field, but for the most part they were unable to get a clear shot until the last minute when Catriona managed to pull a goal back in the last minute of the game.

Referee - Anne O’Donohue, Saoirse

Cusack’s Step Over Treacy’s to Top of Table
Mens' Intermediate Football Championship
Michael Cusack’s 3-12 Sean Treacy’s 2-9

These two teams were very evenly matched at the start of this highly charged intermediate football match. Cusack’s started well with an early goal, but Treacy’s were very menacing as they met little opposition whenever getting through to the half forwards with slack marking by Cusack’s. In the first five minutes there were several cases of consternation in front of goal with Treacy’s getting all the way in to the goalmouth, but just failing to get the ball into the net. Sean Treacy’s were firing most of the shots, but they were made to work hard for every one.

Cusack’s eventually warmed up and started winning more lose balls, resulting in a point to level the score. They were very quick on their feet and intercepting a lot of Sean Treacy’s passes, the notable one being an interception in the Cusack’s full backs that was run all the way up the field for goal number two, taking the half time score to 2-3 to 0-7.

Cusack’s were doing most of the running in the second half and giving Sean Treacy’s goalkeeper Liam Moloney a lot of work to do. Treacy’s managed to convert a fifty yard free into a goal, but this was quickly canceled out by three successive Cusack’s points in as many minutes to edge them back into the lead.

Treacy’s squandered a few goal-scoring opportunities, and for the rest of the game it was very much one-way traffic with Cusack’s in the driving seat, getting the breaking balls, and depriving the Treacy’s forwards of any meaningful ball contact. Treacy’s pulled back a goal, but the damage was done.

Referee - Fergus Daly, New York

Other referees:

Malachy Higgins and Liam Moloney (Sean Treacy’s).