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ALLIANZ NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
DIVISION 1 ROUND 6
Thomas Flynn of Galway in action during the Allianz Football League Division 1 Round 6 match between Galway and Dublin at Pearse Stadium, in Galway.
Photo by Ray Ryan/Sportsfile
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Heaney equaliser saves Tribesmen
Galway .............0-13 ublin ..............0-13
Paddy Small kicked his first free for the sky blues.
DC
A one point lead was never going to suffice, and Galway captain damien Comer kicked an inspirational score before Johnny Heaney added another to give Galway a 0-12 to 0-9 lead.
By DECLAN ROONEY
Media West Ireland
But despite Eoghan O’Gara’s late red card, dublin kicked four in a row to claim the lead only for Heaney to level it late on. SCORERS – Galway: Barry McHugh 0-5 (3fs, 145), Peter Cooke and Johnny Heaney 0-2 each, Adrian Varley, Damien Comer, Shane Walsh, and Gary O’Donnell 0-1 each.
Dublin: Ciaran Kilkenny 0-5, Dean Rock (2fs) and Cormac Costello (2fs) 0-2 each, Jonny Cooper, Paddy Andrews, Conor McHugh (f), and Paddy Small (f) 0-1 each.
GALWAY: R O’Beolain; E Kerin, S A O’Ceallaigh, D Wynne; G O’Donnell, J Duane, C Sweeney; P Conroy, C Duggan; T Flynn, P Cooke, A Varley; S Walsh, S Armstrong, B McHugh. Subs: E Brannigan for Varley (41), D Comer for Walsh (46), J Heaney for Cooke (50), S Kelly for Armstrong (56), D Kyne for O’Ceal- laigh (70+5, BC).
DUBLIN: E Comerford; M Fitzimons, D Byrne, P McMahon; E Lowndes, J Small, J Cooper; J McCarthy, M D MacAuley; C Reddin, C Kilkenny, C Basquel; P Andrews, D Rock, P Small. Subs: B Fenton for Lown- des (HT), C Costello for Rock (48, BC), C McHugh for Reddin (50), E O’Conghaile for MacAuley (59), E O’Gara for P Small (63), A
McGowan for J Small (67).
REFEREE: Joe McQuillan
(Cavan).
iArAn Kilkenny scored five points from play as 14-man dublin staged a late comeback
but Johnny Heaney’s late equaliser in the ninth minute of added-time clinched
a draw for the home side at Pearse Stadium.
Leading by five points at half time Galway only scored three times in the
second half, and despite Eoghan O’Gara’s straight red card following an
off-the-ball incident with Sean Andy Ó Ceallaigh, dublin roared back to take the lead late on.
The game, which was littered with nasty incidents, ended horribly with
several dublin players holding on to their markers as Galway sought an equaliser,
which duly arrived and the shares were divided.
Only eight seconds had elapsed when Ciaran Kilkenny kicked dublin’s first point, and they doubled their lead in the seventh
minute when dean rock tapped over a free. With the wind behind them Galway
were able to shoot from long range and Barry McHugh slotted a couple of frees from distance to help his side into a 0-
5 to 0-2 lead after 13 minutes. Peter Cooke and Shane
Walsh also scored from the 40 metres range after
Paddy Andrews had replied for dublin,
but an unclaimed goal
chance from James McCarthy helped Galway maintain their good run and they led 0-8 to 0-3 by the
24th minute.
The defensive showing
from Galway continued to keep dublin at bay – although you got the feeling that they were happy to show patience into the wind – while McHugh could have gone for goal instead of taking his point as Galway led by five points at the interval.
roles were very much reversed in the second period, and a free from rock and a Kilkenny point had cut the lead to three by the 43rd minute.
The loss of rock to a black card after 46 minutes was a blow to dublin, but after Jonny Cooper kicked a good point on the overlap,