O Dwyers Team NEWS

  • Nov 25,2022
All Ireland Junior Club Semi Final Preview

by Jackie Cahill 


Sunday November 27th, CurrentAccount.ie All Ireland Junior Club Championship Semi Final 


Salthill Knocknacarra (Galway) v O’Dwyers (Dublin), The Prairie, Salthill, Galway, 1.30pm (LIVE Stream)


O’DWYERS will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of St Judes and keep the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Junior crown in Dublin.  


But they’ll get nothing easy on their visit to Galway, where Salthill-Knocknacarra lie in wait at The Prairie.  


O’Dwyers enjoyed a 13-point victory over Kilkenny’s Muckalee in the Leinster Final, with Shannon Richardson bagging a brace of goals.  


In their Connacht Final victory over Drumcliffe Rosses point, Lauren O’Donnell and Laura Kelly combined for 1-12 and they are two players who will take close watching.  


This could be one of the games of the weekend, with the winners going through to a Final on December 11.  


O’Dwyers (v Salthill-Knocknacarra): Niamh Kirby; Alana Kelly, Lara Marry, Holly O’Rourke; Elsa Kearney, Aoife Curran (capt.), Jane Kehoe; Erica Byrne, Katie McCabe; Izzy McLean, Chloe Johnston, Amy Gibbons; Aoife Breathnach, Shannon Richardson, Carla Munson.  


Salthill-Knocknacarra (v O’Dwyers): L Carroll; K Connaughton, E Madden, O de Bairead; S Donnellan, S Divilly, R Reddington; Z Rather, A Finnerty (capt.); A Kelly, L O’Donnell, D O’Connell; A Nash, A Manley, L Kelly.