NORTH KERRY GAA
Mairead O’Sullivan
TOMMY MADDEN CUP FINAL
Ballyduff 2-5 Moyvane 3-19
ON a beautiful day in Coolard a huge crowd turned out to support their teams and they were well entertained by two well-coached, determined teams.
The Tommy Madden Final was first up, a repeat of last year’s final with the holders Moyvane facing Ballyduff. Following the pre-match parade and singing of our National Anthem, referee Colman O’Flaherty (Listowel Emmets) threw in the ball and both teams set about their task in a sporting manner.
The Madden and O’ Connor families are very generous in their sponsorship of this competition and presentations were made to the referee, Colman O’Flaherty who had a fine game and also to both team managers.
The man of the match for Ballyduff was Killian Boyle, while Danny Lyons was the man of the match for Moyvane, both whom received lovely trophies, but the biggest cheer was reserved for winning Moyvane captain, Fionn Mulvihill, who accepted the trophy from Darragh O’Shea.
Fionn went on to make an excellent speech and Moyvane celebrate a back-to-back success. Well done to everyone involved with this great competition. MOYVANE/TARBERT had a blistering start to this final, when they had goaled twice in the first five minutes through the Swan brothers Aidan and team captain Kieran, to put his side six ahead.
St Senans settled into the game and with Aodhan Behan starting to dominate around the middle, they had a very strong second quarter and the score at the small whistle read St Senans 4-5 Moyvane / Tarbert 2-4.
St Senans continued to control the second half with the aforementioned Behan, Tomas Dillon and team captain, Mikey Kelliher catching the eye. Moyvane / Tarbert fought valiantly to the end but this was to be St Senans’ day and they were worthy winners on a final scoreline of St Senans 5-15 Moyvane /Tarbert 3-8.
The trophy was presented to Mikey Kelliher by Seán Moriarty of the board, to the delight of the St. Senans team and supporters. Well done to both teams and to match referee, Pat Shanahan, Duagh
The North Kerry Football Board would like to thank Ballydonoghue CLG for the use of their grounds and for organizing parking for supporters. We are also very grateful to our sponsors, The Madden and O’ Connor Families and ,of course, McElligott Oil’s Asdee.
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RESULTS
North Kerry SFC Quarter-Final
Ballyduff 2-12 Tarbert 0-17
Brendan Boyle Junior Cup Semi Finals
Beale B 2-7 Ballylongford B 4-10
Kieran Corridan Intermediate Cup Semi Finals
Moyvane B 0-7 St Senans B 2-9 Desmonds 2-18 Emmets 2-6
FIXTURES
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 North Kerry SFC Quarter-Final
Duagh v Finuge, Ballybunion 2.30pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 North Kerry SFC Quarter-final
Castleisland Desmonds v St Senans, Finuge noon
Brosna v Ballydonoghue, Duagh 2.30pm