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Strong second half performance and Setanta are Ulster Junior Football Champions

By Sinéad Breen Donegal PRO Sun 27th Nov

Strong second half performance and Setanta are Ulster Junior Football Champions
Strong second half performance and Setanta are Ulster Junior Football Champions

Setanta are Ulster Junior Hurling Champions after a storming final quarter in Celtic Park, Derry early this afternoon. Shane Uí Néill, the Antrim Champions, lived up to their billing having cruised through their quarter- and semi-finals as they were first off the mark and never lost their lead throughout the first half. Setanta trailed by two points 0-10 to 0-8 at the break.

 

Five minutes into the second period and Davin Flynn had levelled the game at 0-11 each. The Antrim men rallied and within minutes the gap was back to two points. Three in a row from Declan Coulter and as the game entered the seventeenth minute and Setanta led for the first time, 0-14 to 0-13. They never looked back from there.

 

Two more Coulter points and and one from Bernard Lafferty left it 0-17 to 0-14 with five minutes plus added time to play. A Davin Flynn goal left Shane Uí Neill with a mountain to climb. They never got to base camp as Setanta hit another five points – scoring 1-10 in the final quarter – to run out comfortable 1-22 to 0-15 winners, a margin that did nor reflect how competitive the game had been until the last few minutes.

Well done Setanta.

By Sinéad Breen Donegal PRO Sun 27th Nov

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