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Paul Lynch from Mullahoran, the manager of St Mary's Granard senior football squad Photo: Syl Healy
Two second half goals and a slick second half performance proved more than enough to get St Mary’s Granard 2023 championship journey off to the best possible start at a well attended Keenan Park in Ardagh on Saturday evening.
St Mary’s Granard . . . 3-14 Ballymahon . . . 0-9
The fourteen point winning margin was made all the more impressive given that the north Longford outfit went into battle without county star Darren Gallagher.
Charlie Martin fisted the first goal for Granard, who led by 1-5 to 0-5 at the break, but rampant St Mary’s dominated the second half to pull away for a very easy victory over Ballymahon with Jamie Brady Hynes and substitute Paul Smyth scoring the other goals.
ST MARY’S GRANARD: Thomas Gallagher; Aaron Smyth (0-1), Eddie Smyth, Tom Kearney; Mark O’Neill, Mark Tully, Sean Corcoran; James Kiernan (0-1), Charlie Martin (1-1); David Callaghan, Harry Kiernan (0-2), Eoin Sheridan; Jordan Martin (0-4, 2 frees), Micheal Hynes (0-1), Jamie Brady Hynes (1-2, 1 free).
Subs:- Declan Hynes (0-1) for JB Hynes (26 mins, blood sub); Paul Smyth (1-1) for D Callaghan (37 mins); Vinny Nally for M Tully (53 mins); Oisin O’Hara for T Kearney (54 mins); Dessie Kiernan for T Gallagher (55 mins).
BALLYMAHON: Aaron Nally (0-1); Chris Killian, Ros Claffey, Sean McMullen; Harvey Townsend, Cormac McDonagh, Eddie Noonan (0-1); John Nevin (0-1), Shane Bawle; Shane Quinn (0-2), Tommy Mulvihill, Darragh Finlass; Jack Walshe (0-2, 1 free), Joe Nevin (0-1), Steven Bawle.
Subs:- Daniel Steele (0-1) for E Noonan (35 mins); Sean Connaughton for H Townsend (50 mins); Oisin Ryan for S McMullen (50 mins); Emmet Finn for John Nevin (49 mins).
Referee: Hugh O’Kane.
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