Killoe back on track with comfortable win over Dromard
All County Football League Division 1 Group 1 - Round 8
Killoe Emmet Og . . . 0-19 Dromard . . . 0-9
Both sides were understrength and Dromard were particularly hard hit as they fielded without no less than eight players who started in the 2022 senior championship quarter-final against the same opposition.
Thus little emphasis will be placed on the outcome of the league game on Saturday. What did matter was that this result puts Killoe back on top of the Group 1 table and on course to reach the Division 1 title decider, not forgetting a place in the Leader Cup semi-finals.
Emmet Og held a slender 0-8 to 0-6 lead at the break with Mark Hughes firing over four of the points but they gradually pulled away in the second half with Michael Quinn shooting a total of five scores on the changeover.
KILLOE EMMET OG: Oisin McManus; Gavin Farrelly, Niall Farrelly, Gavin Hughes; Shane Clarke, Cian Farrelly, Cormac Harte; Ryan Moffett, Ronan Keogh; Jake Donnelly (0-2), Denis McGoldrick (0-2), Michael Quinn (0-6); Mark Hughes (0-5, 1 free), Ronan McGoldrick (0-3), Paddy Moran (0-1).
Subs:- Daniel Mimnagh for J Donnelly (52 mins); Shane McManus for P Moran (60 mins).
DROMARD: Ollie Duffy (0-1, ‘45); Ronan Bleakley, Diarmuid Masterson, Paul McGee; Rory O’Toole, Peter Reynolds, Peadar Kiernan; Conor McGahern (0-2), Ronan McEntire (0-3, 1 free); John Sheridan, Joseph Hagan (0-1), Matt Duffy (0-1); Cian Mimnagh (0-1), Luke McEntire, Ciaran Murphy.
Subs:- Sean McNerney for O Duffy, James Mimnagh for C Murphy and James Brady for J Sheridan (all in the 42nd minute); Oisin Hourican for C Mimnagh (53 mins); C Murphy for P McGee (injured, 56 mins).
Referee: Kevin Smyth (Abbeylara).