Gaelscoil AU 1:06
Kilruane 2:05

On Thursday Gaelscoil AU played Kilruane in Nenagh. This was a great game of schools football. Kilruane started brightly with 2 early points from Cormac Mannion who was excellent on the day. Gaelscoil replied with a goal from Adam Healy then a point. During this dominance Gaelscoil missed a couple of goal chances.

Kilruane applied a lot of pressure on our goal and Noah Nevin Deeley was excellent between the sticks saving 3 certain goals and clearing many other attacks. Mattie O’Gorman replied with a point for Gaelscoil followed up with another from Adam Healy. Conor Lillis and a Tommy Dooley free left half time with the score line 1:03 to 0:04 in favour of Gaelscoil.

In the second half it was end to end football with both teams especially defences on top. For Kilruane Jake Morris excelled and for Gaelscoil Killian Malone and Chloe Connolly were outstanding. Cormac Mannion scored a point for Kilruane and then Gaelscoil replied with 2 points for the hard working Adam Healy.

Kilruane applied a lot of pressure on the Gaelscoil goal and were rewarded with 2 goals from Cormac Mannion. Gaelscoil attacked back up the field and Adam Healy scored a points to leave only 2 points in between the 2 teams with time nearly up.

In one last Gaelscoil attack Kilruane defended brilliantly to deprive Adam Healy his shot for goal. Kilruane were best served by Jake Morris, Tommy Dooley, Craig Morgan and Cormac Mannion while the Gaelscoil had Noah Nevin Deeley, Chloe Connolly, Killian Malone, Conor McCarthy, Dominic O’Brien and Adam Healy who finished with 1:05 from play and he was man of the match.

Reporting Dominic O’Brien