St. Enda's 4-15 Coláiste Mhuire 0-10
Our Senior Hurling Teams adventures in the All-Ireland series came to an end on Friday 28th February when they were defeated by St. Enda's College, Galway in the Connacht Hurling final. St Enda’s College greater technical proficiency and ability to create and take their goal chances was central to the city outfit claiming the inaugural Barry Burke Cup in the NUIG Connacht Colleges senior ‘C’ final at Tuam Stadium.
Two goals in the first half from lively Moycullen corner forward Joe Lydon and another brace from Castlegar’s Patrick O’Boyle in the second period sealed the deal, although St. Enda’s always looked the likely winners having gone in 2-8 to 0-7 ahead at the interval.
We were rocked by the unavailability of full-back Warren Boyle before throw-in and with such a small panel of players to choose from, it was always going to be difficult for us to compensate.
That said, Brian McDonnell’s charges brought a great deal of honesty and effort to proceedings and, certainly, when they played the direct ball to their forwards in the early stages, they caused St. Enda’s quite a bit of trouble.
This has been a great year for our hurling team and we are immensely proud of their achievements throughout the year.
Well done to all involved especially their coaches Brian McDonnell and Eric Walsh.
Panel: Damien Gordon, Conor Gore, Warren Boyle, Niall Flynn, Shane Dowd, James Fitzmaurice, Conor Healy, Robbie Daly, Colin O' Brien, Donal Kelly, Eoghan Mulrooney, Daniel Slyman, Brian Lawlor, Tomás Clayton, Michael Kelly, John Donoghue, Daryl O' Leary, Colm Brannelly, John Galvin, John Keegan, KEvin Gavin, Emmet Naughton. Waterboys: Luke Delaney, Eanna Greally.