ACL Div. 1: Mullingar Shamrocks 2-17 Tang 0-9.

 Management showed the importance of this fixture by fielding its strongest available fifteen on the night. Playing with the wind Shamrocks opened brightly, with Denis Corroon popping over his first point within two minutes. Tang came back to score a point of their own. Shamrocks dominated the next fifteen minutes and added six points from various angles. Simon Quinn was to the fore in scoring three excellent points. A fine individual effort by Donal O Donoghue was added to by Paddy Fagan and a free from Sean Daly after Brendan O Reilly was taken down close to the square. Shamrocks defence was on top throughout, with Denis Corroon laying off some sublime passes. On 21 minutes Denis fetched a high ball at midfield, found Killian Daly in support, and his well-directed pass to Paddy Fagan was finished to the net with aplomb. Ross Corroon slotted over a fine point from a free. Tang in turn had two frees to leave the halftime score 1.7 to 0.3.

 Daragh Daly and Conor Twomey replaced Dave Gavin and Keith Moore, both of whom took knocks in the first half. In the opening minutes Daragh bounded forward in typical fashion only to see his well-placed pass tamely wasted. Three frees for Tang in the next quarter were interspersed by three points for Shamrocks. Ciaran Gavin, who was his usual effective self throughout, slotted over a point followed by two for Simon Quinn.  Shamrocks showed some fine teamwork during this period and were rewarded with a trademark point from Denis Corroon, a free for Sean Daly and a scorcher of a goal by Simon Quinn. On 20 minutes Paddy Fagan scored from play. Pearse Corroon and Niall Hannigan replaced Ross Corroon and Micheal Curley.  Over the final ten minutes of dominance Shamrocks hit both the post and crossbar with Denis Corroon and Simon Quinn converting the rebounds. Good team work saw Killian Daly finish well with Seanie Daly slotting a free for good measure. This was a workmanlike performance and secured Mullingar Shamrocks place in the ACL Div. 1 for 2018 which was not guaranteed prior to this game.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Philip Shaw; Eddie Moore, Ciaran Gavin (0-1), Aaron Purcell; Micheal Curley, Killian Daly (0-1), Keith Moore (Conor Twomey); Donal O’ Donoghue (0-1), Davy Gavin (Darragh Daly); Brendan O'Reilly, Ross Corroon (0-1), Denis Corroon (0-3); Paddy Fagan (1-2),  Seanie Daly (0-3), Simon Quinn (1-5).

 ACL Div.1: Mullingar Shamrocks: 3-20 Castledaly: 3-5

 Both teams had secured their positions in Division 1 and as a result this final game of the 2017 league season was to all intents and purposes a challenge match. This is not an error: the final game of Division I of the ACL was played on Friday 26 May 2017 something of a record surely and with the championship scheduled for late July could it be possible that Westmeath has produced a reasonable calendar of games for club players in the county?  

 Mullingar Shamrocks were fully deserved victors over an injury-depleted Castledaly side and in truth a 15-point losing margin flattered the visitors as two late Castledaly goals were one of the only negatives on what was a satisfactory performance by Shamrocks. David Gavin opened the scoring after 20 seconds with a well taken point before Seanie Daly followed up with a free minutes later.

Brendan O’Reilly was then denied by a goal-line clearance, with the ball destined for the net before being punched over by the Castledaly defender. The first goal came from influential midfielder Darragh Daly who made a great surge forward before finishing from close range. Castledaly responded with a goal before the break before a Denis Corroon point left the hosts leading on a score line of 1-10 to 1-4 at the interval.

 Shamrocks scored the first five points of the second half, four of which came from the excellent Denis Corroon, before Daly added his second goal with a fisted effort after a wonderful pass from Corroon to set him up. Corroon himself would register the third goal and it was catch, turn and shoot after a pass from Seanie Daly which was the score of the night which really killed off the game. Carelessness in the defence led to two late Castledaly goals coming in the last five minutes and it took a long-range effort, from veteran forward Gary Corroon to give Shamrocks a 3-20 to 3-5 victory.

 Mullingar Shamrocks: Phillip Shaw; Ryan Blundell, Eddie Moore, Aaron Purcell; Michael Curley, Kieran Gavin, Brendan O’Reilly; Denis Corroon, Donal O’Donoghue; Ross Corroon, Conor Twomey, Pearse Corroon; Seanie Daly, David Gavin, Kenneth O’Reilly.

Subs: Darragh Daly for Conor Twomey, David Coyne for Ryan Blundell, Conor Twomey for Pearse Corroon, Niall Hannigan for Ross Corroon, Cormac Murphy for Brendan O’Reilly, Gary Corroon for David Gavin.

 Scorers: Denis Corroon 1-7 (2f), Darragh Daly 2-0, Seanie Daly 0-5 (3f), David Gavin 0-2, Ross Corroon, Niall Hannigan, Gary Corroon, Donal O’Donoghue, Brendan O’Reilly and Conor Twomey 0-1 each.