ALL-IRELAND COLLEGES FINAL:Coláiste na Sceilge 1-9 St Mary's Edenderry 0-10
A LATE goal from Éanna O’Connor, son of Kerry manager, Jack, sealed a dramatic victory for Coláiste na Sceilge over unlucky St Mary’s Edenderry at Portlaoise.
A controversial free favoured the Kerry side and substitute Barry O’Dwyer fed a perfect pass into O’Connor, who fired home.
Impressive Edenderry led 0-6 to 0-1 at the interval. The Munster champions had registered four wides by the time Stephen Hurley opened the scoring for Edenderry.
Excellent midfielder Paul Cribbin made it 0-5 to 0-0 as the Kerry side’s wides tally reached nine. O’Connor finally opened Coláiste’s account but full forward Sean Hurley’s point left St Mary’s in control at the break.
The Kerry lads were a different side after the break, with O’Connor, Damien Kelly and Ian Galvin leading the comeback. Three unanswered points followed before Cribbin opened his side’s second half account. The Cahirciveen side added three points to level the game with 10 minutes left.
St Mary’s replied with fine points from Stuart Cullen and Shane Forde before Stephen O’Dwyer’s point left just a point between the teams.
COLÁISTE NA SCEILGE:D Horgan; S OSullivan, M Griffin, N Fitzgerald; S OSullivan, D O'Sullivan, I Casey; M Thiemann, G Gibson; I Galvin (0-1), D Kelly (0-2), D Daly; S O'Dwyer (0-2), E O'Connor (1-2), N O'Shea (0-2) (capt). Sub: C O'Shea for S O'Sullivan.
ST MARY'S EDENDERRY:S Geoghan; C Grehan, M Young, D Holton; B Kenny D Kelly, J Kavanagh; P Cribbin (0-2), S Guing; S Forde (0-1), A Sullivan (0-2), S Cullen (0-1); B OFlaherty, S Hurley (0-4), P Farrell; P Foy for B Kenny.
Referee:Pat McGovern (Galway).
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