ACL Div.1: Mullingar Shamrocks 0-9 St Loman’s 1-12

A comfortable win for an understrength St Loman’s in this ACL Div.1 match played in bitterly cold conditions on Saturday afternoon in Springfield. St Loman’s, minus their inter-county players, will take the greater satisfaction from this result. Playing against the wind St Loman’s held an interval lead of 1-7 to 0-4 and maintained the six-point gap at the final whistle thanks to Danny McCartan’s 0-5 from second half free kicks. The goal midway through the first half scored by Conor Regan was very much of the conceded rather than created variety and had a significant bearing on the final result.

The game’s highlight was the exhibition of kicking delivered by Denis Corroon and Danny McCartan in difficult conditions for place kickers. Denis began by pointing a sideline in the opening minute and at the final whistle he had added another 0-7 to his collection. Trevor Keena scored Shamrocks only point from play in the fortieth minute. Danny McCartan was equally clinical for St Loman’s as he kicked 0-6 from frees and 0-2 from play.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Eoin Doran; Ryan Blundell, Efe Siode, Dillon Matthews; Davey Coyne (Niall Hardiman), David Gavin, Marc Eivers; Zach Aherne, Denis Corroon (0-8); Emmett Walsh (Ross Corroon), Patrick Fagan, Alan Cashman (Killian Daly); John O’Reilly, Trevor Keena (0-1) [Shane Ormsby], Jordan Warde (Darren Keena).