Within touching distance

Allianx NFL Division Twp
Derry v Clare
Sunday, 1pm, Owenbeg
Live on BBC iPlayer

By Michael McMullan (Gaelic Life) 

The snaking run and finish from Brendan Rogers sent a packed Celtic Park into overdrive. 

Coming from six points down to chin the Dubs was another significant step in Derry’s resurgence. 

The Oakleafers went from tame to wasteful before taking solace in a dressing room where regrouping was the order of the day. 

Niall Toner’s goal was one thing, but Gareth McKinless taking a yellow card and laying down a marker seconds later spoke volumes for the added heat Rory Gallagher’s side brought to the second half.  

Backward steps don’t break any delft.  

Winning in the manner they did would’ve been invaluable in the Derry learning curve. The now overused ‘down the stretch’ period of the game saw Derry take more right options than wrong ones.  

Lachlan Murray kicked over a monster point like the one in the McKenna Cup with the nerve of a man with way, way more than the 23 senior appearances to his growing reputation. Throw in Oisin McWilliams arrowing over a point that would grace any stage. 

Going into the game, the fact that Derry were a barometer for Dublin sums up the expeditious rise in the last two seasons. 

The hype and hysteria was followed by a weekend off. Would it kill the momentum? Maybe among the fans. If anything, it will have allowed the jets to be cooled inside the camp before getting ramped up for today. 

Derry must be wary today. They walked the same path last year. One with the smoothest of surfaces until a controversial second yellow card and subsequent one-match ban for Shane McGuigan in the hostile Hyde Park. 

A long trip home with doubt in the back of the Derry minds was followed by a hammering at the hands of Galway. It was a car crash. The game was over well before half-time. 

If Derry take their unbeaten run to 10 games this afternoon, promotion will be secured. For the first time since 2015, top flight football will return to Owenbeg and Celtic Park. 

It’s a long way from playing Sligo with relegation to Division Four on the other side of an unthinkable defeat that raised its ugly head. 

The last two weeks will allow the focus to switch to Clare who are gunning for a win that would take them closer to an eighth season in the second tier under Colm Collins. 

Emmet McMahon, Eoin Cleary and Gavin Cooney will be the names on the Derry minds as they factored in their defensive match-ups this week. Collins’ son ‘Podge’ and Keelan Sexton missed part of the league through injury, but will add to Clare’s cocktail today. 

The Banner season has been up and down. They wrestled an unlikely win from Louth who led for virtually the entire game. 

Meath drove four goals past them, with goalkeeper David Sexton since replaced by Stephen Ryan between the posts. 

Cork hit Clare for three goals in the last outing, but it’s the games in between that will keep Derry’s focus high. 

They came up short to Kildare in a game they should’ve won and played Dublin well for much of the game before being reeled in by Dessie Farrell’s cavalry sprung off the bench. 

When Clare think back to last year’s clash in Ennis, they can reflect on being level seconds after the interval before the introduction of Gareth McKinless. 

Derry then won possession from Stephen Ryan’s kick-out before Benny Heron hit the net and when McKinless added a second goal - also from squeezing the Clare kick-out - the Oaks were on their way to a 2-13 to 0-10 win. 

It got worse for Clare in the All-Ireland quarter-final when Derry put five goals past them on an afternoon Odhran Lynch leaked two at the other end. It mattered little as the Oakleafers were home and hosed. 

The retired David Tubridy is one of four players from that day in Croke Park not to have tasted league action so far this season. 

Eoin McEvoy will be the only Derry player not to have played last summer and Clare’s familiarity will have been helped with the addition of new Slaughtneil manager Mark Doran’s addition to Colm Collins’ backroom team. 

While he’ll not have been up close with the Slaughtneil county contingent so far, he’ll have gone into Emmet Park with his eyes open. You’d imagine he’s studied Glen and saw what makes Ethan Doherty and Conor Glass tick. The same can be said for Magherafelt’s trio of McEvoy, Conor McCluskey and Odhran Lynch. 

While Derry’s brief is simple and a draw will do them, that’s not how it works or how Rory Gallagher’s incessant want for more would allow. 

There is still a visit to Páirc Uí Chaoimh to follow next Sunday and Cork have a tricky visit to Ardee today. 

That’s all well and good, but the last 15 days will have been about one thing - Clare, a win and getting the job done. The one they failed to close out last year. 

If the mentality is spot on and the hunger for high standards follows the Oakleafers down the Owenbeg tunnel, today could well be the day Derry pull their seat up back up at the top table. 

GAA - The Rory Days

Michael McMullan (Gaelic Life) 

From Derry v Dublin NFL Programme - Saturday, March 4, 2023

Today is Rory Gallagher’s 40^th game as Derry manager and it’s fitting to see the Dubs rolling into town, one of the biggest names in the game. 

Dublin have set a benchmark for counties like Derry to gaze at from afar. If they are serious, the margin can be closed. Otherwise, it’s just about rolling out excuses about funding or paying homage to jewellery you can’t afford. 

Derry under Rory Gallagher are well and truly in the serious category with a 73 per cent win rate in league and championship before Sean Hurson tosses the leather into Derry air this evening. 

“The first reaction would be disappointment,” were the first words of Gallagher’s first post-game interview as Derry manager a 1-17 to 0-14 McKenna Cup defeat against Monaghan at the heel of 2019, after going 1-3 to 0-0 behind early doors. 

Derry fought themselves back into the game until Monaghan’s stopping of the runners halted energetic red and white clad young guns. 

“They showed a lot of knowhow and Division One knowhow,” Gallagher said of the Farney mentality on that December Sunday in Inniskeen. “We are very naïve and that was reflective, but for 40 odd minutes of that game, I thought we were outstanding.” 

Next came another defeat McKenna Cup, this time to Donegal on a midweek night when Gallagher expressed his frustration at the Oakleafers’ preparations on home soil when he felt their opponents' “culture” was on a different level. 

"I would have been very unhappy with it…and that is something we have got to learn sharp,” he told the assembled press of Derry’s pre-game protocols and timekeeping, while also commenting how some players outside the matchday squad sat in the stand in their club gear instead of being with the squad.  

"You have to give every game its respect. Donegal arrived here, as one, on a bus, well fed and well prepared with their brief team meeting and they move on. I don't think we had that.”

Leitrim, once again in Celtic Park, were the opponents for Gallagher’s first league game as Derry boss and the visitors could well have taken more than a draw from the Division Three clash. 

A week later, Derry had victory over Down in their sights under the Páirc Esler lights until substitutes Pat Havern and Sean Dornan got a late grip at midfield to squeeze away any realistic promotion hopes. 

When Derry came out of Covid with a streamlined squad and management team, they should’ve chinned Armagh in the 2020 championship only for a lacklustre start. 

"That's the challenge now for us, to commit to each other to be better over the next 10 to 12 weeks,” Gallagher said minutes after stepping through the championship exit door. 

“I know from living in Donegal and having been involved with Donegal, the effort that they give to each other. We have been short of that but that's the way we need to go about it.” 

Since then, only Galway (twice) have beat Derry in league or championship. In an interview on the cusp of promotion from Division Three, Gallagher expressed how the Oakleaf squad must start beating teams they’d not have been expected to beat if they were to step up the ladder. 

It was a directed at a Derry camp with a youthful injection, giving players the chance to grow into the jersey and become the next generation. 

Take Paul Cassidy. Since making his debut 33 games ago as someone many in the county felt wasn’t cutting the mustard, he hasn’t missed a game and kicked his entire 2-23 tally from play. He’s now what every successful team needs - a link man who can score. Paudi McGrogan is another player Gallagher won’t go into war without, two men who sum up the Derry progress. 

Shane McGuigan, who Gallagher mentioned didn’t capitalise on a half goal chance in their 2020 defeat to Down, now knows the importance of being both sided as opposed to both footed - another nugget offered and taken. It’s the variation of the turn that asks defenders a more difficult question, helped with hours of lockdown kicking against the gable wall, 100 per day, with his right peg. 

From outside the bubble, the hallmark of Gallagher is the unrelenting bellowing of instructions along the sideline. He bucks the trend. Despite being full engrossed in a game and without wearing an earpiece or linking in with any sort of stats output before a post-game interview, he unbelievably shoots off stats and key moments with ease. 

Another thing is evident. He rarely - if ever - says maybe. I remember a query on Brendan Rogers’ fitness ahead of the 2021 championship being greeted with “Mal…Brendan won’t be available for selection….Brendan will be playing full back”. A very definite response in relation to a hamstring injury that saw Rogers sit out a league final as a precaution. 

It helps paint a picture of a very definitive individual steering the Oakleaf ship, a dressing room devoid of ambiguity. 

There are also the media interviews littered with references to a host of sports. A fanatical Liverpool fan, Gallagher often offers examples from the Red’s style of play to annotate an example. 

Before the All-Ireland semi-final with Galway, he fielded a question about shot selection. Without batting an eyelid, he used Golden State Warriors basketball star Steph Curry’s ability to get into the area for a three-point shot as a reference point. 

“The Warriors create a situation where is on his own, one on one, taking those shots and has a high percentage,” Gallagher replied, comparing him to Ciaran Kilkenny, Con O’Callaghan and David Clifford in the GAA arena. “It’s the intelligence behind the way who those teams attack that I think is brilliant.” 

At the same press conference, there was a witty reply when asked if he was frustrated when labelled as a one-dimensional coach. 

He wasn’t, pointing to how football is played in waves. The Ireland cricket team was discussed, outlining how bowlers need to be able to bat and batters must be able to field. 

“You have to change...like newspapers,” he told a scrum of reporters. “If they stayed old school, they’d have to fight for survival. You have to go online and be different. You don’t want to be different for the sake of it.”  

When the fat in is the fire today, it’s unlikely Gallagher will change too much. He’ll spit on his hands, he'll roar and he'll shout. The players will be in no uncertain terms of what is required and Dublin will know the team who were once in the lower league wilderness are now snapping at their heels. 

Rory Gallagher’s win rate as Derry manager

McKenna Cup (9 games):               44%

NFL (23):                                          78%

SFC (7):                                             57%

NFL and SFC (30):                           73%

All competitions (39):                    67%

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GAA - Moneymore prepare to talk balls ahead of Sunday's Ulster SFC opener

On Sunday Derry and Tyrone will lock horns to signal the start of the 2019 Ulster senior championship.

To get the ball rolling, Moneymore are hosting 'Up or the Match' in Cookstown's Dunleath Bar (8.00) on Friday, May 11.

It will be a night of music, chat and craic with a prize of a bar tab for the best dressed fan.

All-Ireland medal winners Johnny McGurk and Chris Lawn will be joined by County Derry Post Journalist Michael McMullan and Teamtalkmag.com pundit Kevin Kelly.

The evening will be compered by Moneymore man and Derry GAA Vice-Chairman Stephen Barker. 

The night will kick-start fundraising for the club’s development fund.  

This year, off the field, Moneymore have brought together some ambitious plans for a gym and a multipurpose area along with an upgrade to their existing clubrooms.

“A bit of banter from the panel and GAA talk will set the tone for the evening,” McIvor added.  “There will be a draw on the night for match tickets and signed jerseys and the best dressed county/club representative will make it an event not to be missed.”

The evening will start with the GAA debate at 8.00pm, with music to follow by Two Degrees. Entry by donation all proceeds to the club Development Fund. 

Lynn Hat-trick in Salou

Lynn Hat-trick as Moyola Park under 15’s win against FC Salou

Wednesday night saw Moyola under 15’s play FC Salou @ Futbol Salou in one of their friendly games and came out 4-2 winners.

Moyola went one nil down after only 4 minutes and they thought the writing was on the wall but the young lads bounced back with the home side finding R Lee’s pace  to much as he rounded two defenders and shot low under the FC Salou keeper to leave both teams going in one all at half time.

The Moyola lads came out the second half full of confidence with P Diamond and S McGrogan in full control in midfield it was R Lynn who chipped the keeper to make it 2 -1 from an McGrogan pass. R Lynn scored his second to make it 3-1 following a great run from R Lee who passed to the Moyola forward and he tapped the ball in from close range. 

Moyola’s forth goal came from a penalty when R Lee was brought down in the box and in great sportsmanship Lee handed the ball to Lynn who made no mistake by beating the home keeper for his hat-trick. A free kick on the 90^th minute saw a C McMullan shot from 25 yards come off the cross bar and the referee blew up for full time.

Moyola’s back line of captain O Lee, Milne, Clarke & Gilmore were in great form an McErlean in goals pulled off early saves with the midfield of  P Diamond, McGrogan F Diamond & McNicholl all in great form and Lee & Lynn causing the FC Salou defence all sorts of problems.  

Moyola Park manager Robin Martin made changes during the game with Henry, Palframan, McMullan, Young and Rafferty all coming on and we're it great form. The boys who have been training hard week in week out for this paid off with this great performance and some off the other coaches from around Europe who were there thought the lads played really well.

Moyola Park: McErlean, O Lee, Milne, Clarke, Gilmore, P Diamond, McGrogan F Diamond, McNicholl, R Lee, Lynn. Subs: Henry, Palframan, McMullan, Young, Rafferty.  

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Starts on Monday 11^th April and every Wednesday and Friday night 7:30-8:30pm thereafter. 

Registration night on Friday 8^th April at 7pm Loup GAC Clubrooms Fees: £2 per session or £30 for full 18 sessions. Bring your own water bottle and proper footwear must be worn. 

Everyone welcome, Coaches include: Jennifer Bradley, Joseph McVey, Martin McVey, Martin McAlynn any enquiries contact Brian McAlynn on 07855108508

NFL - Derry v Armagh Preview

Allianz NFL – Armagh v Derry (Sunday - 2pm – Athletic Grounds)

UNCERTAINTY STILL HANGS IN 

THE AIR ON FINAL DAY

When Derry saw off Cavan for a second successive win in Breffni Park a promotion race was in the early stages. In the back of the mind we knew it was an unforgiving league but we didn’t think it would be Derry’s last win.

In the interim Derry were blitzed by the direct running of Tyrone and Galway, both games that could have saw heavier defeats for the Oakleafers.

After that came two high scoring encounters against Laois and Meath. They were entertaining but Derry need more stability in their play. The attacking flair is all very well but leaking goals have offset any scoring.

Over the six outings so far 26 different players have started for Derry, with Danny Heavron, Gareth McKinless and the McKaigues the only players to have been selected to start every game.

The main scoring threat has come from Ryan Bell (1-15), James Kielt (0-17), Mark Lynch (2-8) and Christopher Bradley (2-7) over the campaign so far.

On average Derry are scoring 2-12 per game but are leaking an average of 1-14 and this is reflected on the league table with two wins, two draws and two defeats.

As the Derry camp prepare for this weekend’s game they will be striving for a victory that will quash any relegation fears and get a positive vibe going forward into the championship.

Consistency will be something the management will be concerned about after a mixed bag of performances and so far a settled team hasn’t been established.

The running power of Enda Lynn and Ciaran McFaul has been sorely missed in recent weeks. Both men are crucial in the quick transition from defence to launch counter attacks.

Liam McGoldrick played in the opening McKenna Cup game and was back among the substitutes last weekend. Speaking after Sunday’s draw Tony Scullion gave an update on the injury list.

“Dermot McBride has got good news compared with what he was getting. A couple of weeks and he will be back out onto the field again and we’re hoping he’ll be ready for the championship.”

Last season Kevin Johnston was carried off in the championship clash with Donegal. “Kevin will tick every box to get himself fit again. He’s a great, great lad and he is back out on the field and playing in house matches with us so he’ll be ready to go in the next couple or three weeks.”

After two weeks away from the Ulster minefield Scullion outlined the challenge this weekend. “We’ve had great battles with Armagh down the years and they are great team. They play with great heart, they play with great passion and Kieran McGeeney will bring the best out of Armagh.”

With promotion off the radar Scullion eyes this weekend’s game as perfect championship preparation.

“It’s a great challenge for us because at the end of the day we are preparing now for the 22nd May and the championship against Tyrone. What better preparation could you get for the championship than playing Armagh in the Athletic Grounds?

NFL – Story so Far

DERRY

· Derry 3-13 Fermanagh 1-10

· Cavan 1-11 Derry 1-12

· Derry 2-12 Galway 1-18

· Tyrone 2-15 Derry 0-12

· Laois 1-22 Derry 5-10

· Derry 2-12 Meath 2-12



ARMAGH

· Meath 1-10 Armagh 0-8

· Armagh 0-15 Laois 1-13

· Armagh 1-10 Fermanagh 0-12

· Cavan 3-18 Armagh 0-10

· Armagh 1-15 Galway 1-15

· Tyrone 0-13 Armagh 1-10



PREVIOUS MEETING – Saturday 9th March 2013 (Celtic Park)
NFL DIV 2 – Derry 0-16 Armagh 0-16

Derry were held in an exciting draw by Armagh in Celtic Park played at a high intensity.

Derry led 0-7 to 0-5 but a quick-fire start to the second half brought four Armagh points as they took the lead during the third quarter.

With ten minutes to go Derry edged in front with points from Lee Kennedy, Danny Heavron and Enda Lynn.

Once again Armagh battled back with Jamie Clarke helping them back on level terms.

The Oakleafers could have snatched a win late on the game with late efforts from James Kielt and Mark Lynch but in the end the Derry men had to be happy with a draw.

Derry: Thomas Mallon, Gerard O’Kane, Chrissy McKaigue, Dermot McBride, Charlie Kielt (0-1), Mark Lynch (0-1), Sean Leo McGoldrick, Patsy Bradley, PJ McCloskey, Danny Heavron (0-1), James Kielt (0-8), Enda Lynn (0-1), Benny Heron, Emmett McGuckin (0-1), Lee Kennedy (0-3).

Subs: Raymond Wilkinson for E McGuckin (54), Ciaran McFaul for B Heron (61).



Armagh: Philip McEvoy, James Morgan, James Donnelly, Declan McKenna (0-1), Aaron Kernan (0-3), Brendan Donaghy, Ciaran McKeever, James Lavery, Stephen Harold (0-1), Kevin Dyas (0-1), Johnny Hanratty (0-1), Caolan Rafferty, Jamie Clarke (0-3), Stefan Forker (0-2), Gavin McParland (0-3).

Subs: Mark Shields for J Morgan (42), Gary McCory for J Donnelly (45), Anto Duffy (0-1) for C McKeever (49), Tony Kernan for J Hanratty (59), Brian Mallon for A Kernan (64).

TOUGHEST TEST YET FOR MAGHERA

MASITA HOGAN CUP FINAL (Saturday - 3pm - Croke Park)

TOUGHEST TEST YET FOR MAGHERA

St Patrick’s Maghera v St Brendan’s Killarney

With the exception of the MacRory Final, all of Maghera’s championship tussles this season have been battles.  Abbey, Omagh, Dungannon and Summerhill all offered different challenges but this weekend it goes to a whole new level.

All-Ireland titles are never handed out, the best team always wins in the end and reports coming from the South are that St Brendan’s have a formidable team.

With Kerry winning the last two All-Ireland minor titles it suggests the conveyor belt in the Kingdom is now in overdrive.

‘The Sem’ only have two players from last season’s Kerry minor team.  One is goalkeeper Billy Courtney but ironically the Dr Croke’s man played at midfield in the Hogan Cup semi-final.

The other is attacking half back Dan O’Brien who has been impressive all season for Killarney.

The Kerry men have given very little away this season and have conceded an average of 0-8 in each of their championship games with goalkeeper David Carroll yet to concede a goal.

In the Munster Corn Uí Mhuirí competition Gerry McGrath’s team have been streets ahead of everyone else.  After being stung last season by Chorca Dhuibhne they went on a mission this year.  The Hogan Cup has been their focus since September.

Evan Cronin from Spa was a panelist last year for Jack O’Connor’s Kerry minor team and has bagged three goals to date, 1-3 in the Munster Final followed by 2-3 as they beat the Dublin champions in the Hogan Cup.

David Clifford scored their goal as they ended the dominance of Chorca Dhuibhne in Munster and has scored 1-9 in their last two games. 

Michael Casey and David Shaw have also been key players as ‘The Sem’ romped their way to this weekend’s final.  Shaw is a 6’ 3” target man and Patrick Turner will be aiming to limit his influence.

Another consistent trend through all their games has been wing forward Dara Moynihan and the industry he brings gives them a strong platform to link defence to their dangerous attacking unit.

So far Paul Hughes and Colum Lavery have studied their opponents in great detail and this time they will be again doing their homework.

Shane McGuigan spoke after the win over Summerhill about the excitement this championship run has brought to the school.

“For the past two weeks in school, the MacRory and Hogan football is all that is being talked about. The buzz about the school is unreal and all the teachers are telling us about previous experiences in the Hogan final and the team wanted to make their own memories.”

The Slaughtneil clubman is aware of this week’s test.  “We know the attacking threat St Brendan’s pose as we've found out that in both their provincial final and Hogan Cup semi-final they've won by more than a 15 point margin.”

“I believe they'll bring that traditional Kerry attacking play and we'll have to be well prepared to cope with that. We are coming into the match as underdogs, but we will have our game plan and hopefully get over the line on the day.”

The big question this week surrounds Killarney and the standard of opposition they met along the away.  Have they just not been tested? How will they cope when faced with adversity in a tight game?

Hughes and Lavery won’t have to worry about this aspect of their side’s game.  This Maghera team never know when they are beaten.

In 2013 Maghera put in an exhibition of football in Croke Park and this time around it will take a similar level of effort as they aim to tame the hotly tipped Kerry outfit.

St Patrick’s will hope to have both Keelan Feeney and Conor Glass back in contention to start on Saturday but it’s unlikely that Odhran McKeever will be fit to play a part.

He was taken to Enniskillen hospital with a suspected broken ankle but it has since been diagnosed as ligament damage and this weekend’s final may come too soon for him.

Conor Mulholland, Tiarnan Walsh and Peadar McLaughlin would be in the reckoning for the defensive slot as Maghera finalise their team.

Shane McGuigan, Jack Doherty, Shea Downey, Paddy Quigg and the Kearneys have all played a role in getting to the final.

Oisin McWilliams has chipped in with scores, Conall Darragh’s industry against Omagh and Sean O’Caiside’s heroics against Dungannon. 

Then you have unsung heroes like Paddy McCormick and Conor McAllister in defence who can carry possession through midfield and in one instance McAllister reverted to full back against Dungannon.

The Derry school has never beaten a Kerry team in a final, falling to Chorca Dhuibhne two years ago and a Mike Frank Russell inspired Killorlgin in 1996.

In the only meeting between the two sides, Maghera hammered St Brendan’s in the 1994 semi-final in Portlaoise.

On Saturday it will take an almighty effort to bring home a sixth Hogan Cup and Maghera will need their key players to deliver.  They have not been found wanting so far when the chips were down.

McGuigan still thinks about his Croke Park encounter last summer. “The last run out some of the players had in Croke Park wasn't as good as we hoped, but we are determined to make this time count.”

“Every time you step foot into the Croke Park arena never mind the pitch is something that is extremely exciting, and I believe it's really important to just enjoy the occasion as days and occasions like these don't come along too often.”

St Brendan’s have won 20 Munster titles and 2 Hogan Cups, the last in 1992 when Seamus Moynihan inspired them to victory. 

After securing a 15^th MacRory title McGuigan dreams of helping Maghera annex a 6^th Hogan. 

“To bring the Hogan cup back to Maghera would be an amazing feeling. To go down in the history books would be special and to be going down in history with people that you're spending nearly every minute of every day with is something different. Winning with your best friends is a feeling that cannot be competed with.”

Getting to finals is only half the job and McGuigan knows the next step will be the toughest so far.  “We know the challenge that awaits us and we must be 100% focused.”

“Coming in as underdogs lets us play with that bit more freedom but the team we are playing are a brilliant side.  Of course we believe that we can win it, and if we didn't believe we wouldn't be here.”

PATH TO FINAL - MAGHERA

MacRory Cup
Play-Off-St Patrick's Maghera 0-11 Abbey CBS 1-7
Quarter-Final-St Patrick's Maghera 2-8 Omagh CBS 1-9
Semi-Final-St Patrick's Maghera 2-10 St Patrick's Dungannon 1-11
Final – St Patrick’s Maghera 5-7 St Paul’s Bessbrook 1-9

Hogan Cup
Semi-Final – St Patrick’s Maghera 2-14 Summerhill College Sligo 3-10

PATH TO FINAL – KILLARNEY

Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Championship)
Quarter-Final- St Brendan’s (Killarney) 1-14 PS Chorca Dhuibhne 0-4
Semi-Final- St Brendan’s Killarney 2-14 St Flannan’s Ennis 0-5
Final – St Brendan’s Killarney 5-21 HS Clonmel 0-7

Hogan Cup
Semi-Final – St Brendan’s Killarney 4-15 St Benildus Dublin 0-9