Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

‘Double double’ is on for Derry boys

- BY ORLA BANNON Newtown Blues (Louth) v Rathnew (Wicklow), Gaelic Grounds, 2pm Mullinalag­hta (Longford) v Eire Og (Carlow), Glennon Bros Pearse Park, 2pm Rhode (Offaly) v Portlaoise (Laois), O’Connor Park, 2.30pm Clonmel Commercial­s (Tipperary) v Dr Crok

DUAL stars Slaughtnei­l’s dreams of a ‘double double’ are very much on after a hard-fought Ulster club win over Omagh St Enda’s.

The defending Derry and Ulster hurling and football champions won 0-10 to 0-8 at Celtic Park and now play either Scotstown or Kilcar in the semi-finals.

Three-in-a-row Fermanagh champions Derrygonne­lly are also through to the Ulster football semi-finals.

They had a 2-8 to 1-8 win over Armagh Harps at Brewster Park after both teams finished with 13 players.

Slaughtnei­l led from start to finish last night, scoring the opening four points.

Christophe­r ‘Sammy’ Bradley, who scored the injury-time winner when the sides last met three years ago, nailed two early points to assert Slaughtnei­l’s dominance.

The home side were guilty of missed chances though and hit nine wides in the opening half.

Omagh had a good second quarter against a strong breeze.

Conor O’Donnell, Ciaran McLaughlin and Conor Clarke arrowed over longrange

Leinster SFC first round Munster SFC quarter-final Ulster SFC quarterfin­als points while full-back Hugh Gallagher got on the end of a well-worked move to score from close in.

They drew level at five points each but Shane McGuigan’s point restored a slender lead, 0-6 to 0-5, at the break.

Crucially, Slaughtnei­l tagged on the opening two points of the second half as they then had Chrissy McKaigue black carded for hauling down Conan Grugan, Ronan O’Neill tapping over the free to give Omagh hope.

Joe McMahon’s ‘45’ had them back in it but Slaughtnei­l used all their experience to see it out.

Two early goals from

Paul Ward (penalty) and Conal Jones gave Derrygonne­lly the platform to win their first ever Ulster club game.

They hit both inside 90 second of each other and were 2-1 to 0-0 ahead before Joe McElroy got Armagh Harps on the board after 18 minutes.

Derrygonne­lly led 2-4 to 0-4 at half time but the second half was a dour affair with both sides having two players sent off. They’ll next face the winners of today’s clash between Cavan Gaels and Lamh Dhearg of Antrim.

Clare SFC final

Meath SFC final

Westmeath SFC final

Wexford SFC final Munster SHC quarter-final

Kilkenny SHC final

 ??  ??
 ??  ?? CUALA BARE THEIR TEETH It was all smiles in the end for Cuala’s players as they
celebrated a three-in-a-row
CUALA BARE THEIR TEETH It was all smiles in the end for Cuala’s players as they celebrated a three-in-a-row
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom