SCHOOLS GAA/Munster VS SF final and Ulster MacRory Cup SF final:Causeway Comprehensive  2-13 Scoil Phobail Bheara  2-11Causeway Comprehensive - thanks to the scoring exploits of corner forward Jersey Houlihan in the first half - were able to withstand a great second-half comeback by Beara to retain their title in this absorbing Munster Vocational Senior Schools A Football Final played at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney yesterday.

Beara came within a point of the champions with eight minutes to go, despite being 2-9 to 1-5 behind at the break. Houlihan, marked by three different defenders in the first half, managed to score 2-6 of that first-half total.

Causeway soon moved nine points clear before Beara powered into the game with a succession of points to narrow the gap to just five points at the end of the third quarter.

Then, in the 49th minute, Beara were given a major lifeline when O'Sullivan was taken down for a penalty and Harrington calmly despatched the penalty to the corner of the Causeway net. When Shane Lowney added a point a minute later, unbelievably Beara had closed the gap to a point 2-11 to 2-10, but Causeway held on to win.

CAUSEWAY: D Fitzpatrick; J O'Halloran, P Moran, J Griffin (capt); J O'Grady, R Galvin, D Doyle; B O'Grady (0-3), S Maunsell; M Bowler, K O'Mahoney, T Kearney; J Houlihan (2-7), G Gerhan (0-2), PJ O'Gorman (0-1). Sub: G Hogan for T Kearney.

SCOIL PHOBAIL BHEARA: R Power; D Crowley, J Lowney, S O'Sullivan; P O'Sullivan, C O'Sullivan, B Goggin; PJ Connelly (0-1), K O'Sullivan; D Lowney (0-3), M O'Sullivan, Brendan O'Regan (0-2); C Harrington (2-3), S Lowney (0-1), M Murphy (0-1). Sub: David Harrington for Crowley (injured).