Dublin V Clare Match Report

  • Mar 15,2009

McGills Girls take Top Points

 

The lines on the new Dublin Ladies Jersey flow like waves on the tide. And if ever you stood on the Matt Talbot bridge and watched the advancing tide running up the Liffey it would be an apt description of the Dublin team that took to the field in Portmarnock today. It was relentless.

The team was without Dublins award winning stalworths Denise Masterson and Lyndsey Davey and the captain for the day was the host clubs Cliodhna OConnor of Naomh Mearnóg.

From the throw-in the Banner County girls were put under pressure and within the first minute Mary Nevin [Na Fianna] clocked up a point. The Clare defense put up a valient effort and it was another 6 minutes before Sinead Ahearne scored the first of 6 points in the game. Amy Ring, one of three Foxrock Cabinteely players on the day, was unlucky with a shot on goal in the next minute as the ball ricocheted of the crossbar support on the upright but her chance came in the 21st minute when she slotted the only goal of the first half home. The Clare defence held solid and this was evident by the Dublin wides when five chances were sent left and right of the posts. There is always a bursting point when you try to hold back water and this happened in the 18th minute when Ciara Murphy put one over. The points followed in quick succession then, one a minute for five minutes and then four at the tail end of the half to see the Jackies go into the break with 1-12 on the board and Clare yet to open an account.

The second act started out much like the first with Dublin opening the procedings with a point quickly taken by St Sylversters Sinead Ahearne. Niamh Hurley [Fingallians] opened an account of her own with two goals both in the sixth minute. Ann-Marie Murphy in the 15 shirt opened her account with a lovely goal steered into the net shortly after. The Banner County girls converted a free in the 19th minute and the game moved to the Dublin keepers end of the pitch. They put two points over before Katie Murphy, who had come on in place of Amy Ring popped one over for the Jackies. But the game was well and truely over at this stage and a further point from Clare was just a consolation. The game finished up with a goal by Wanderers Nicki Daly in the 31st minute.

Final tally Dublin 6-14 : Clare 0-4


No1 C OConnor (N Mearnógcapt); No2 M Kavanagh (Round Towers Clondalkin)[replaced by No17 C Barrett - St Brigids]; No3 N Comyn (Ballyboden St Enda) [replaced by No23 O Colreavy - N Mearnóg]; No4 A McKenna (Castleknock);
No5 S OMahoney(Skerries Harps) ; No6 A Cluxton (Parnells); No7 S McGrath (Thomas Davis) [replaced by No19 E Travers - St Peregrins]; No8 N McEvoy (Parnells); No9 S Furlong (St Brigids) [replaced by No24 Fleur Wynne-Morgan - Scoil Uí Chonaill]; No10 M Nevin (Na Fianna 0-5); No11 A Ring (Foxrock Cabinteely 1-0) [replaced by No20 K Murphy- St Brigids]; No12 C Murphy (Foxrock Cabinteely 0-2); No13 N Hurley (Fingallians 2-1); No14 S Ahearne (St Sylvesters 0-6) [replaced by No18 C OConnor -Clontarf]; No15 A-M Murphy (Foxrock Cabinteely 1-0) [replaced by No22 N Daly - Ballyboden Wanderers]

Player of the Game:-  Ciara Murphy

Referee: M Ryan [Meath]