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AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
REACH: Corofin midfielder Ronan Steede and Nemo Rangers’ Alan O’Donovan battle for possession from a kick-out. Photo: David Fitzgerald / SPORTSFILE.
to his right from Luke Connolly, but Connolly did score
And daithi Burke, who won an All- ireland at Croke Park in September with the Galway hurlers, tapped over two points as Corofin pulled further clear in the closing stages.
COROFIN: Bernard Power; Cathal Silke, Liam Silke, Kieran Fitzgerald; Ciarán McGrath, Dylan Wall (0-02), Kieran Molloy; Daithí Burke (0-02), Ronan Steede; Micheál Lundy (0-01), Gary Sice (1- 04, 0-02f), Jason Leonard (0-01); Michael Farragher (1-01), Martin Farragher (0-06), Ian Burke (0-02). Subs: Conor Cunningham for Molloy (46 mins), Colin Brady for Lundy (49), Barry O’Donovan for Leonard (56), Dylan McHugh for C Silke (56), Ciarán Brady for Burke (59), Dylan Canney for Martin Farragher (62).
NEMO RANGERS: Micheál Aodh Martin; Alan Cronin, Aidan O’Reilly, Keith O’Donovan; Tomás Ó Sé, Stephen Cronin, Kevin Fulignati; Alan O’Dono- van, Jack Horgan; Barry O’Driscoll, Paul Kerrigan (0-01), Colin O’Brien; Paddy Gumley (0-01), Luke Connolly (0-06, 0-04f), Ciarán Dalton.
Subs: Conor Hogan for Ó Sé (38 mins), Jack O’Donovan (0-01)] for J Horgan (38), Michael Dorgan for Gumley (38), Colm Kiely for Dalton (48), Ciarán O’Shea (0-01) for Fulignati (53)
REFEREE: David Gough (Meath).
SLICK: Michael Farragher ends a great
Corofin move with a stunning goal.
their first point from a free in the tenth
minute.
That reduced the arrears to just
a goal however nemo wouldn’t score again until the 21st minute.
in the meantime Corofin took control and their supremacy was
emphatically highlighted by Michael Farragher’s wonder
goal.
DUAL-STAR: Galway All-Ireland hurling winner Daithi Burke scores a point to help Corofin win their All-Ireland club title
with victory over Nemo Rangers.
Photo: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE.
Up the other
desperate to start well in the second-half but it was disaster once again, as Martin Farragher kicked two points in the first eight minutes.
end Corofin goalkeeper
One minute later Kerry All-ireland winner Tomás Ó Sé departed the scene for nemo rangers as their hopes of an unlikely comeback faded rapidly.
Bernard Power did well to save
Jason Leonard, dylan Wall, Martin
Farragher, Micheal Lundy and Sice all
added to Corofin’s tally
before a brilliantly worked move ended in daithi Burke’s hand pass to a wide open Farragher, and he finished to the nemo net again.
At that stage Corofin
held a big 2-06 to 0-01
lead and points from Paddy Gumley and Connolly were badly needed. But Martin Farragher, Sice and daithi Burke cancelled them out as Corofin were 2-09 to 0-05 clear at half- time.
nemo rangers were
Photo: Stephen McCarthy/ SPORTSFILE
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