Ulster Club Senior Football Championship final: Gaoth Dobhair 1-13 Scotstown 0-12
GAOTH Dobhair ended a Donegal Ulster club famine in dramatic fashion this afternoon, as they squeezed past Scotstown to lift the Seamus McFerran cup.
The now defunct St Joseph’s had been the one and only Donegal club to lift the top honours, all of 43 years ago, and Gaoth Dobhair came into the final having been crowned top dogs in Donegal for the first time since 2006.
But at a rain-sodden Healy Park in Omagh, the men from west Donegal added their club’s name to the provincial roll of honour, getting the better of the Monaghan champions, after extra time, on a 0-13 to 0-12 score line.
It was a game in which both teams found it difficult to land a decisive blow, and Seaghan Ferry scored the winning point for Gaoth Dobhair, after Scotstown had top scorer Shane Carey sent off in the first period of extra time.
Scotstown: R Beggan (0-2, 0-1 45’); J McDevitt, E Caulfield; P Sherlock, D Morgan, D McArdle (0-1), R McKenna, R O’Toole; F Caulfield, K Hughes (0-1); C McCarthy (0-1), D Hughes (0-1), J McCarey; S Carey (0-6, 0-3f), F Maguire
Subs: J Hamill for McKenna (52), O Heaphey for Maguire (57), B Boylan for McCarey (69), F McPhillips for McDevitt (71)
Yellow cards: K Hughes (3), D Morgan (60, 76), D McArdle (76)
Red card: S Carey (68)
Gaoth Dobhair: C Sweeney; N McGee, C McFadden; G McFadden, E McGee, N Friel, D Ó Baoill; D McBride, O McFadden-Ferry; O MacNiallais (0-4, 0-3f), C Mulligan (0-1), M Carroll (0-1), O MacNiallais, N Ó Baoill (0-1); E Collum (0-1), K Cassidy (0-2)
Subs: J Carroll (0-1f) for Collum (35), S Ferry (0-1) for N Ó Baoill (60), P McGee for McBride (start of ET), J Ó Baoill (0-1) for G McFadden (62)
Blood sub: C McCafferty for J Ó Baoill (68-69)
Yellow cards: O McFadden-Ferry (47, 76), E McGee (69, 79), C McFadden (70)
Red card: E McGee (second yellow, 79)
Referee: N Mooney (Cavan)
Ulster Club Intermediate Football C'ship final: Naomh Éanna's (Antrim) 2-11 Mullahoran (Cavan) 1-10
St Enda’s, the first-time Antrim champions, became their county’s first ever Ulster intermediate kings with a deserved win in Saturday’s engrossing provincial decider against Cavan champs Mullahoran.
A first-half goal from Kristian Healy and a second-half stunner from inspirational midfielder Joe Maskey – just seconds after Mullahoran had smashed a shot off the St Enda’s crossbar – saw the Glengormley men to a famous victory.
Mullahoran: S Briody; C Mussi (0-1), T McGahern, Cian O’Reilly; P Brady, M Hynes, Colm O’Reilly (0-1); K Brady, PP Galligan (0-1); R Lynch, E O’Reilly (1-6, 0-4 frees, 1-0 pen), S McKeogh (0-1); G Brady, P Brady, Cormac O’Reilly
Subs: S Shields for Galligan (51), Smith for Colm O’Reilly (55), B McArdle for McKeogh (56)
Yellow cards: McKeogh (8), Hynes (15)
St Enda’s: P Flood; K Jennings, M McNamee, D McNutly; C Lyttle (0-1), J McAuley, C McAuley; R Kennedy, J Maskey (1-0); P Healy, R Scott (0-2), K Healy (1-1); E Gibson, O Eastwood (0-4, 0-3 frees), E Nagle (0-3)
Subs: C O’Neill for Kennedy (27)
Yellow cards: Eastwood (32), Flood (37), K Healy (58)
Black cards: Flood (60), Gibson replaced by D Gault (63)
Referee: Dan Mullan (Derry)
Attendance: 2,328
