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Eire Og 1-15 – Ogonnelloe 0-5 at Dr Daly Park, Tulla
Eire Óg got off to a great start in this year’s Intermediate championship as they comfortably overcame Ogonnelloe on Sunday in the first round at Tulla.
A good start from Eire Og saw them go four points to one up early on with scores from Ronan Keane, David O’Halloran and Danny Russell. Ogonnelloe came back into the game as Kieran Forde converted three frees to draw level but this was to be there last scoring action before the half. Eire Og regained control from here and with Danny Russell on target from placed balls they went in at the break on a 7-4 lead.
The townies started the second half much like they ended the first and continued to dominate a poor Ogonnelloe side. Ogonnelloe’s only score of the half came from a free that was deflected by Eire Og ‘keeper Kevin Brennan over the bar, having only scored one point from play Ogonnelloe never looked like any real threat. More Danny Russell frees and further points from Barry Nugent, Niall Daly and David O’Halloran built a commanding advantage. Then a goal from substitute John Lawlor wrapped up a solid performance for Eire Og to secure the win.
Eire Og will look at this result as the first stepping stone back to Senior level for 2012 and will be happy with such a performance which they will hope to build on in the coming weeks as preparation for their second round tie.
Eire Og:
Kevin Brennan; Kevin Hally, Marc O’Donnell, Cathal Whelan;Tadgh McNamara, Fergus Flynn (0-1), Kevin Moynihan; Noel Whelan, Mark Fitz; Ronan Keane (0-1),AdrianWalsh, Danny Russell(0-6, 4f); David O’Halloran (0-3), Barry Nugent (0-2), Niall Daly (0-2). Subs: John Lawlor (1-0) for Nugent, Ronan Cooney for Hally,Tomas Downes for Daly.
Ogonnelloe:
Tomas McKenna; John O’Brien, Michael Costelloe, Eoin Sheedy; Paschal Sheedy, Patrick Barton,Tomas Condon; Barry Kiely, Michael Noel Bugler; Paul Healy, Kieran Forde (0-4, 4f), Ozar McMahon; Robert Dreelan (0-1), John McKenna, Peter English.