Moynalvey produced a commanding performance to comfortably see off St Pat’s, Donabate of Dublin in this Leinster Junior club championship quarter final played in Round Towers GAA Grounds, Lusk on Sunday, November 9th.
Moynalvey 3 – 11 St Pats, Donabate 0 – 7
The Dublin champions started brightest posting the opening 2 scores of the game. However, Moynalvey soon settled and well worked scores from Robbie Quinlan and Willie Byrne had the game level at 0 – 2 each after 10 minutes. A Cathal Sheridan point put Moynalvey ahead and although Donabate equalised soon after, the men in maroon then proceeded to dominate the next 15 minutes scoring 1 – 5 without reply to effectively kill off the game before half time.
Mark O’Sullivan scored the first of these points before Sheridan pointed 3 frees on the trot. A further Sheridan point from play was followed by an excellent O’Sullivan goal to push Moynalvey 1 – 8 to 0 – 3 clear with 29 minutes gone. Donabate were rattled and begun to get indisciplined losing a man to a second yellow card on the stroke of half time. Donabate kicked the last score of the half to to leave it 1 – 8 to 0 – 4 in Moynalvey’s favour at the interval.
Any hope of a Donabate revival were quickly extinguished on the restart. A Brian Gilsenan point was followed by a well worked Cathal Sheridan goal within 3 minutes of the restart. Another excellent Moynalvey move resulted in Robbie Quinlan netting to push the Meath team clear by 3 – 9 to 0 – 4 with 20 minutes remaining.
Moynalvey brought on a number of subs over the remainder of the game and an O’Sullivan point from play and a Sheridan free in response to 3 Donabate efforts left the final winning margin at 13 points. The Dublin side lost their discipline again towards the end of the game finishing with 12 men when losing 2 further players to red cards in the last 5 minutes of the game.
This was an excellent team performance by Moynalvey who now progress to a semi final meeting with Mooncoin of Kilkenny in 2 weeks time.
Team & scorers – O Regan, R Kiernan, P Donoghue, D Kane, P Weldon, D Dixon, D Donoghue, S Donoghue, G Fagan, J Donoghue, C Sheridan (1 – 6, 0 – 4 frees), R Quinlan (1 – 1), B Gilsenan (0 – 1), W Byrne (0 – 1), M O’Sullivan (1 – 2). Subs – S Reilly for B Gilsenan, A Brien for D Kane, PJ Walsh for R Quinlan, D Durkan for D Donoghue & C Collins for M O’Sullivan.
