IT’S THE BIGGEST day on the club football calendar with Dublin’s St Vincent’s up against Mayo’s Castlebar Mitchels in Croke Park.
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Result: St Vincent’s 4-12 Castlebar Mitchels 2-11
It’s time for the 2014 AIB All-Ireland senior club football final. St Vincent’s of Dublin take on Castlebar Mitchels of Mayo.
Here’s the teams:
CASTLEBAR MITCHELS: Ciaran Naughton; Alan Feeney, Eoghan O’Reilly, Ray O’Malley; Donal Newcombe, Tom Cunniffe, Patrick Durcan; Gerard McDonagh, Barry Moran; Neil Lydon, Aidan Walsh, Richie Feeney; Danny Kirby, Neil Douglas, Tom King.
ST VINCENT’S: Michael Savage; Kevin Bonnie, Jarlath Curley, Hugh Gill; Cameron Diamond, Brendan Egan, Michael Concarr; Daithi Murphy, Eamon Fennell; Gavin Burke, Diarmuid Connolly, Shane Carthy; Tiernan Diamond, Ciaran Dorney, Tomas Quinn.
St Vincent’s 0-1 Castlebar Mitchels 0-0: 1 min – Shane Carthy with the opening point of the game for St Vincent’s.
Two late changes for St Vincent’s see Ger Brennan and Ruairi Trainor in for them.
Early wides for Castlbebar Mitchels from an Aidan Walsh free and then Danny Kirby from play.
St Vincent’s 0-1 Castlebar Mitchels 0-1: 6 mins – The Mayo champions draw level courtesy of Patrick Durcan.
St Vincent’s 0-2 Castlebar Mitchels 0-2: 7 mins – Diarmuid Connolly sends St Vincent’s back in front but then Tom King ties the game with a pointed free.
St Vincent’s 1-2 Castlebar Mitchels 0-2: 9 mins – Fine goal for St Vincent’s as Diarmuid Connolly splits the defence with a pass for wing-back Michael Concarr to rush onto and finish calmly to the net.
Goal chance for Castlebar but cracking save by Michael Savage to deny Danny Kirby.
St Vincent’s 1-2 Castlebar Mitchels 0-3: 11 mins – Beautiful crossfield pass by Tom King for Aidan Walsh who pops over a neat point.
How big a loss will Richie Feeney be for Castlebar after going off due to a black card offence?
Cameron and Tiernan Diamond are the two St Vincent’s players who made way after the introduction of Ger Brennan and Ruairi Trainor to the starting line-up.
St Vincent’s 1-2 Castlebar Mitchels 0-4: 14 mins – Another fine point from a Castlebar forward, this time Neil Lydon is on target.
Bad miss by Tom King there from 20-yard free as the ball is gathered by Michael Savage.
St Vincent’s 1-2 Castlebar Mitchels 0-5: 16 mins – Great marksmanship as Neil Douglas sweeps over a point.
Another goal chance for St Vincent’s but Ciaran Dorney’s effort is blocked by Ciaran Naughton.
And again Naughton is called into action, this time he tips away a goal bound shot by Ruairi Trainor after the ball came back down off the upright from a Mossy Quinn point attempt.
Castlebar Mitchels 0-6 St Vincent’s 1-2: 21 mins – Fine point by Neil Lydon puts Castlebar ahead after quick thinking by Tom King saw him tap a free into his teammate.
Castlebar Mitchels 0-8 St Vincent’s 1-2: 23 mins – Barry Moran shines as a target man and offloads to Fergal Durcan for a point before Patrick Durcan comes forward to hook over another off his left.
Castlebar Mitchels 0-8 St Vincent’s 2-2: 26 mins – And there is St Vincent’s second goal with Dorney finding the net on this occasion. Neat interplay set it up with Ruairi Trainor offloading to Diarmuid Connolly who unselfishly fisted the ball across for Dorney to palm to an empty net. Level game now.
St Vincent’s 2-3 Castlebar Mitchels 0-8: 30 mins – Ruairi Trainor blasts the ball over the bar. There was a goal on there it seemed after Mossy Quinn spun away from Tom Cunniffe and sent the ball across to Trainor.
St Vincent’s 2-3 Castlebar Mitchels 0-9: 31 mins – Barry Moran points for Castlebar.
All square at the interval in Croke Park. We’ll be back shortly with the second-half action.
Castlebar Mitchels 0-10 St Vincent’s 2-3: 31 mins – First blood in this half to Castlebar with Tom King firing over a free.
Castlebar Mitchels 0-10 St Vincent’s 2-4: 33 mins – Shane Carthy ties the teams with another point for St Vincent’s.
St Vincent’s 2-5 Castlebar Mitchels 0-10: 35 mins – Mossy Quinn smashes over a point after a pass from Diarmuid Connolly.
St Vincent’s 2-6 Castlebar Mitchels 0-10: 37 mins – St Vincent’s extend their lead as Quinn taps over a free when Daithi Murphy is fouled.
St Vincent’s 2-7 Castlebar Mitchels 0-10: 38 mins – The Dublin champions have certainly started the second-half better. Their fourth point in a row comes courtesy of Diarmuid Connolly as he strokes the ball over from play.
St Vincent’s 2-7 Castlebar Mitchels 0-11: 41 mins – Cracking point for Castlebar by wing-forward Neil Lydon into Hill 16.
St Vincent’s 3-7 Castlebar Mitchels 1-11: 44 mins – Dramatic passage of play. Firstly Neil Douglas sees his point attempt hit the post, fall into the arms of the waiting Danny Kirby and he rifles it into the corner of the net. Then at the other end St Vincent’s attack and Diarmuid Connolly rises highest in the goal mouth to flick the ball to the corner for their third goal of the match.
Substitute: Cameron Diamond is on for St Vincent’s for the injured Eamonn Fennell.
Goal chance for St Vincent’s when Cameron Diamond’s point attempt hits the bar and Michael Concarr tries to net from the rebound but Ciaran Naughton parries and clears.
St Vincent’s 3-8 Castlebar Mitchels 1-11: 49 mins – Diarmuid Connolly points to push St Vincent’s clear by three.
Substitute: James Durcan is on for Castlebar for Neil Douglas while Kevin Golden replaces Ruairi Trainor in the St Vincent’s side.
St Vincent’s 3-9 Castlebar Mitchels 1-11: 51 mins – Connolly with another classy point for St Vincent’s.
St Vincent’s 4-9 Castlebar Mitchels 1-11: 53 mins – That should be the decisive score. Connolly slaloms through the defence, loses the ball briefly before picking it up and walloping a left-foot shot to the net.
St Vincent’s 4-10 Castlebar Mitchels 1-11: 55 mins – That’s 2-5 now for Diarmuid Connolly as he points from play.
St Vincent’s 4-10 Castlebar Mitchels 2-11: 55 mins – Danny Kirby’s second goal of the game for Castlebar cuts the gap to five points.
Substitute: Castlebar bring on David Joyce for Ray O’Malley while St Vincent’s bring on Adam Baxter for Ciaran Dorney. Castlebar replace Ger McDonagh with Shane Hopkins.
St Vincent’s 4-11 Castlebar Mitchels 2-11: 60 mins – That looks like the insurance point as Shane Carthy raises a white flag.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves – fickle bunch. Any countrymen worth their salt can tell you that win or lose, your team needs your support, but you’re like a bunch of jackals – at their backs as long as they win, and if not, you tear them to shreds. They did Ireland proud this tournament, and were defeated honourably in what was one of the cleanest games I’ve seen. Had they been a lesser side, the score might have been 66 – 0. Well done boys, win or lose, you did us proud.
Keep that losing mentality up and we will never win. Your ‘boys’ are a bunch of millionaires that gave a pathetic performance. They wouldn’t stand for that losing mentality in NZ and that’s why they will win the tournament. If they were from Colombia then they’d be shot!
Hear, hear. They did us proud and were great ambassadors off the pitch while over there too. Much prefer to be supporting our lads than to have them behave like some of the English squad have done.
Well put. Ireland is a fairly small country, not easy to produce a heap of magnificent players. I think the pool matches are well to keep heads held high over. So they lost it to nerves…sh*t happens
I would point your fluff-filled pathetic Y chromosome lacking ugly trollface to NZs loss to France in 2007. Coach kept his job, public got over it. If you want to be so insulting, you lose the right to be treated with respect
Expected more from you there Kelly… Disappointing! You’ve pulled that one out before somewhere else… Unoriginality is so unbecoming. It’s women like you that make chauvinism so fun
Wales got stuck in from the start. I think Kidney didn’t explain to the lads that there wouldn’t be a return leg! Still proud of them all nonetheless. Good luck to Wales.
Really disappointed. We all dreamed for a while and some of us even got carried away. Wonderful to get carried away about an Irish team. Can all those negative pricks out there go back to dwelling on ur property portfolio and shut up. FairPlay lads, for a few weeks you had the country dreaming.
Wales did a good job but were we over hyped
good luck ireland!!
Congrats Wales. Ye gave our boys a lesson this morning. :(
Go on lads
Talk of semi final and final opponents before a ball had been kicked by the media, of course Wales were underestimated. End of day last eight in the world another disappointing world cup campaign
LOSERS. We are losers. Why are we so useless. Needs addressing
Did people think they would actually get anywhere in this world cup. They are a one hit wonder team good against Australia and now fade away to nothing. Just goes to show how asleep Australia were that day…. O’Gara please please retire you are crap
Paul, you really have equipment issues
@Paul: I don’t think that someone who can’t spell their name correctly can start pointing fingers Mc grath – capitol G dumbass….
You will have the same people saying weren’t they great for trying, but they are just a bunch of losers on a world stage. A half arsed effort and the country should hang it’s head in shame. Ireland needs to start producing winners of some kind and stop this clap on the back for losing mentality!
If Ireland starts producing “winners” like you, Kelly, we are well and truly doomed. Hitler had the same “winning” attitude, I’m sure. Nonetheless, not having *your* support is probably the best thing to happen to the team today – with fair-weather fans like you, who needs enemies.
Disappointed with the loss of course but the lads have done us proud and I’m sure will get a hero’s welcome home.
To have low expectations
Gatland did his homework and showed us to be a two trick pony. Can’t fault the Welsh – they did it right and wanted it more. We looked shook from the get go. Too many unforced errors. Most of the lads had a ghastly day as their game plan collapsed. Still, there’s a lot of positives to take away from this tournament and the win against Australia will go down in history. I hope they get a warm welcome home. They have plenty to be proud of.
Back to the drawing board. The style of Irish rugby will only get you so far on the world stage and that needs to be addressed. But that’s for another day.
Proud of our boys.
denied…………………………. so sad……..
they at least got us this far… shame
Been up since 7 o’clock yesterday morning and only now do I remember that I can’t watch it on RTE because I’m in England for college….
10-3 down and half time here.. experience will out in the second half i can feel it….. cmon ireland
That and kicking some of the penalties
did we under estimate them ?????
I think so :(
Time to look forward to our soccer’s team glorious failure now on Tuesday night
yes it pisses me off to that we have lost folks……!!!!!
The welsh were as tight as a ducks arse and ireland didn’t create and momentum and were to slow to adapt but i was not on the field and having been in the boxing ring myself
ITS NOT THE LADS ON THE SIDE LINE WHO HAVE LOST THE FIGHT…
ITS THE LADS ON THE PITCH…
YES THEY LOST AND WE ALL KNOW IT BUT FAIR PLAY TO THEM FOR GETTING US THIS FAR…..
LETS REGROUP AND LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES.
MAYBE WE NEED TO LOOK AT YOUNGER PLAYERS…
i am still gutted though….
Cmon ireland….
we all need support even in shit times not just good…….
denied……………….. so so sad…
Same old story
their defense is a brick wall. they need to go out to the flank…
Can we please take this opportunity which it is, to sacrifice the next 3 six nations, every year the fans jump all over the Irish team for their performance in six nations championships. The fact is nothing holds a candle to the world cup. Let’s bleed new players ROG, D’Arcy, O’Connell, O’Driscoll and others won’t be around for 2015 so let’s drop them now and build for the future. It sounds harsh but this professional international rugby not underage tip!
My heart is in my mouth. Going to need a stiff drink after this!
Why the hell replace O’Gara with Sexton? How many will he miss in this match?
Least he might actually have a go.
Why do we always need to be underdogs to achieve anything its gettin kinda old !
How many times can they knock it on?
Not for faint hearted
LOOSERS!
The irony is delicious.
I bet they can at least spell
@Sean Armstrong you have a serious case of sour grapes turning nasty on the female sex is a juvenile response and its dick-heads like you that turn straight women into lesbians!!!!!!!!!!
Tip of the day: scroll back to the original comment and then hit reply. Then your ironic comment will pop up just below mine and I can appreciate it in all it’s glory! Almost would have missed it and then you wouldn’t have been very happy would you pet?
I don’t think Sean have much interest in the female sex going by his profile pic. Makes his comments understandable.
@ willy pearse
How does a comment like this get any thumbs up?!
Im dissapointed we lost today, especially for BOD and ROG :(
And they did us proud in this world cup, I dont care what dick pearse says, they played well for most of the time, and I really enjoyed watching all of their performances, It was a big improvement on the last world cup, Improvement is how you win, Ireland WILL win the world cup some day! The only thing that annoyed from the start of this match was the fact we didnt kick our penalties, That was our downfall in RWC2003 – we lost to Australia 17-16 because we didnt go for the 3 points when we had the chance! Same thing again today, but at the end of the day, wales were the better team, and I really hope they go on to win the World Cup!
Hard luck Ireland! :(
LOOSERS
All those red thumbs guarantees we will always be LOSERS
I see you discovered spellcheck so?
Bet the sheep in the valleys are in for a torrid time today
@ngvireland if they didn’t get far this country shouldn’t play rugby
@Sean mc Grath listen asshole my fucking name and il write it what ever what I want…. Dick head
Jesus are you able to use the shift key – Sean McGrath (capitol M this time numnuts), u need to go back to school, the dog in the picture would have got it right at this stage…
@sean mc grath Suck my ball sac you twat