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Our Lady’s Meadow Durrow who played Scoil Bhride Rathdowney in the Division 1 championship hurling final at the Cumann na mBunscol finals in Laois Hire O’Moore Park. Picture: Alf Harvey.
Durrow brought Day 1 of the Cumann na mBunscol hurling and camogie championships last Wednesday, May 12, to a close with Roinn 1 success. They were unquestionably the most impressive team of the entire competition, with excellent hurlers all over the field.
A point that is emphasised by the fact that within 10 minutes, every Durrow player bar their corner-backs had scored. Rathdowney had plenty of fine hurlers themselves, with Aaron Kirwan leading the line for them in attack.
Durrow 9-29
Rathdowney 1-3
Durrow started well as the excellent Ciaran Farrell scored the first of his four first half goals. Rathdowney responded well to that setback as Aaron Kirwan scored a goal from the wing, but it would be one-way traffic after that.
Farrell took his tally to 4-2 while Liam O'Sullivan and James Dooley also scored goals. Conor Campion, Ciaran Carroll and Frankie Carroll all contributed points as Durrow led by 23 at half time. Aaron Kirwan landed three points for Rathdowney, but it was 6-11 to 1-3 at the interval.
Rathdowney keeper Tiernan Delaney also deserves great credit, especially at the start of the second half when he made a string of fine saves. But the onslaught continued as Farrell scored his fifth goal while points from Carroll, Dooley and O'Sullivan followed.
Frankie Carroll and Conor Campion added further goals as Durrow won comprehensively in the end. SCORERS AND TEAMS BELOW PICTURE.
SCORERS - Durrow: Ciaran Farrell 5-5, Frankie Carroll 1-9, James Dooley 1-7, Liam O'Sullivan 1-4, Conor Campion 1-1, Harry Gee 0-2, Patrick Shortall 0-1 Rathdowney: Aaron Kirwan 1-3
DURROW: Nathan Dunne; Eddie Ince, Todd Lalor, Conor Campion, Liam O’Sullivan, James Dooley, Harry Gee, Frankie Carroll, Ciaran Farrell. Subs: Tommy Shortall, Rian Fox, John Hourihan, Patrick Shortall
RATHDOWNEY: Tiernan Delaney, Conor McCarthy, Aaron Danagher, Jack Keyes, Liam Doherty, Marcus Harding, David Bowe, Aaron Kirwan, Odhran Weldon. Subs: Reuben Rafter, Oisin Stapleton, Tadhg Doherty, JP Ryan, Emilis Austrums, Sebastian Harding, Mayson Marum, Harry Graham
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