Dublin 0-19
Waterford 0-14
Tomás McCarthy at Walsh Park
DUBLIN ENDED WATERFORD’S 11-game Allianz hurling league unbeaten record as Ger Cunningham’s side won a cagey encounter at Walsh Park.
The teams were level six times before a crowd of 6,362 but the visitors fired five points in a row during the second half to wrestle control of the game. David Treacy nailed nine placed balls for the winners with the lively Eamon Dillon recording four from play.
Young hurler of the year Tadhg De Burca returned to the Waterford line-up for his first start of 2016 instead of the injured Darragh Fives. Mark Schutte was ruled out due to illness for the Dubs.
Patrick Curran opened the scoring on 42 seconds as the Déise galloped three points up inside three minutes.
Dublin settled down however with their short game and Eamon Dillon knocked over two fine points to help them into a 0-6 to 0-3 advantage by the close of the opening quarter. Shane Bennett replied with Waterford’s first point for fifteen minutes.
Derek McGrath’s charges moved 0-8 to 0-7 ahead by halfway as Austin Gleeson struck two massive points from inside his own half. Curran also split the uprights from distance. The home side departed on seven wides however with Gleeson responsible for four.
On the restart, Dillon levelled the contest for the third occasion. David Treacy converted a brace of frees to send the visitors back in front. A purple patch of five consecutive points over eleven minutes gave them a 0-15 to 0-11 lead.
This sustained period of dominance included a scorcher from wing back Chris Crummey and another long range single by Darragh O’Connell.
Substitute Sean Treacy and free taker David Treacy clinched victory with late white flags. A third win in a row secures their spot in the quarter finals.
Scorers for Waterford: Patrick Curran 0-7 (0-4f, 1 ’65), Austin Gleeson 0-3 (0-2f), Jamie Barron, Shane Bennett, Jake Dillon, Colin Dunford 0-1 each.
Scorers for Dublin: David Treacy 0-9 (0-9f) Eamon Dillon 0-4, David O’Callaghan, Niall McMorrow, Chris Crummey, Johnny McCaffrey, Darragh O’Connell, Sean Treacy 0-1 each.
Dublin
1. Conor Dooley (Ballyboden St Enda)
2. Eoghan O’Donnell (Whitehall Colmcille)
3. Cian O’Callaghan (Cuala)
4. Oisin Gough (Cuala)
20. Chris Crummey (Lucan Sarsfields)
6. Liam Rushe (St Pat’s Palmerstown)
5. Shane Barrett (Na Fianna)
8. Darragh O’Connell (Cuala)
7. Johnny McCaffrey (Lucan Sarsfields)
9. Daire Plunkett (St Brigids)
11. Niall McMorrow (Ballyboden St Enda)
14. David Treacy (Cuala)
13. David O’Callaghan (Ballyboden St Enda)
12. Eamonn Dillon (Naomh Fionbarra)
24. Fiontan McGibb (Setanta)
Subs
23. Sean Treacy (Cuala) for McGibb (54)
10. Sean McGrath (Kilmacud Crokes) for Barrett (61)
21. Colm Cronin (Cuala) for O’Connell (70)
Waterford
1. Stephen O’Keeffe (Ballygunner)
2. Shane Fives (Tourin)
3. Barry Coughlan (Ballygunner)
4. Noel Connors (Passage)
7. Philip Mahony (Ballygunner)
6. Tadhg De Burca (Clashmore-Kinsalebeg)
10. Kevin Moran (De La Salle)
8. Jamie Barron (Fourmilewater)
15. Colin Dunford (Colligan)
12. Michael Walsh (Stradbally)
13. Patrick Curan (Dungarvan)
14. Jake Dillon (De La Salle)
11. Shane Bennett (Ballysaggart)
24. Tom Devine (Modeligo)
5. Austin Gleeson (De La Salle)
Subs
21. Maurice Shanahan (Lismore) for Devine (51)
23. Michael Kearney (Ballyduff Upper) for Dunford (63)
19. Shane O’Sullivan (Ballygunner) for Bennett (70)
26. Thomas Ryan (Tallow) for Gleeson (70)
Referee: Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow)
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The “Bring Ronaldo Home” campaign is a scam set up to defraud naive football fans (morons) and The Score should not be publicising it, at least without doing some research. Every Utd fan I’ve seen on twitter are up in arms about it. It was registered as a limited company in the past fortnight and pledges to “honor PayPal refund rules” if Ronaldo doesn’t get signed. It should be noted that said PayPal refund policy expires after 60 days. Also while receiving £10 per pledge, they say they will only refund £7 of it (not that it will matter).
Sid Lowe, journalist quoted this morning “That Ronaldo Home campaign is utter batshit on every level scam/parody/ripoff”
Hi Conal,
In no way are we ‘promoting’ the Bring Ronaldo Home campaign, no more than we are promoting Adidas by highlighting the awfulness of their new Marseille jersey in this piece (http://thescore.thejournal.ie/new-marseille-jersey-909414-May2013/)
We posted the video because any attempt to get Ronaldo back to Manchester United is news.
Steven,
I think your missing his point this is not an attempt to bring Ronaldo back to Manchester United but a scam preying on gullible fans. What he takes issue with would appear to be that you are reporting this as a legitimate attempt to raise money to bring Ronaldo back to United which can be construed as being irresponsible if in fact this is a scam.
Scam potential here.
I threw a few quid into the campaign run for the defence of Paul Kimmage.
Subsequent events not Kimmage’s fault obviously, but an eye opener for anybody putting a hand in their pocket for a crowdfund.
Nuff said.
I’m sure Ronaldo is just dying to trade in Sunny Madrid for Rainy Manchester.
Sad B%#$!#%S……
What’s next? Fans trying to raise the money to buy their club back from evil American owners?…oh wait…
The evil Glazers who financed 5 league titles, 2 league cups and a European cup. Not to mention 2 more European cup finals.
Im not anti-Glazer by any stretch of the imagination but I wouldn’t go giving them too much credit for “financing” the success since they have taken over the club. It is all club generated money that goes in to the club and the Glazers pump sweet f all of their own money in to the club.
They have done a lot to increase revenues (rising ticket prices, greatly increased sponsorship etc…) but they have also placed the club in a lot of debt at a great expense to the club. You can say what you like but they hardly “finance” the success.
All that said as long as they continue to leave the management of the club to those who know how to manage it and don’t begin to bleed the club of any money I think their ownership can at least be tolerated!
Don’t bother Big Pat most people don’t recognize how good the Glazers have been. Spent plenty of money on players keeping the club hugely successful and have made the club into a profit making machine.
As a United fan…what a ridiculous plan! How much will he make for the club? €1,000,000,000???? Not a chance will he! I would sooner give a small donation to a charity than to this…Out of interest, I would wonder what happens to all the money when they don’t raise the total amount!
The club has a backroom team in place for this sort of thing, it should be left to them to decide what players come and go!
So ronaldo says he wants to leave forces his transfer and united want him back? So what’s all the fuss about wanting Rooney out?