Reserve Football Shield

St Brigid’s 0-10 St Paul’s 3-11

St Paul’s travelled down to Musgrave Park on Monday evening and came away with a 10 point win in the Reserve Football Shield.

A young St Brigid’s team had the better of things in the early stages and led by 0-3 to 0-1, with two points from Conor Taylor and one from James Gorman, but St Paul’s got going around the midway point in the first half and points from Niall Martin, Conor Hughes and Ruairi Hamill, plus a goal from Conal Duffy put them four clear. Conor Taylor and Oisin McDonnell pulled two back for St Brigid’s but Duffy and Hughes hit two for St Paul’s in first half injury time to put their team 1-6 to 0-5 ahead at half time.

A Sean Munce goal for St Paul’s seven minutes into the second half left the home team with a mountain to climb, and when Caomhin Killyleagh grabbed his team’s third the win was sealed. To their credit St Brigid’s kept battling away and points from Lundy, Burns and Toner (2) gave the scoreboard a better look, but the men from Shaw’s Road grabbed two more in injury time from Munce and Hamill to win by double scores.