Liatroim Fontenoys Camogie Cup final

St Killian’s Garron Tower 5-10 St Patrick’s Keady 1-9

Full forward Clíodhna Thompson was the star of the show at Dub Arena today as her goal and seven points guided St Killian’s to a Fonentoy’s Cup win over St Patrick’s Keady, their title at this grade. Keady had started the game well and corner forward Molly Comiskey sent over three unanswered points to settle her team into the game.

The Tower girls needed a lift and it came from Thompson who sent over two points from play and when Anna Birt got through for St Killian’s opening goal the tide began to turn. Aoife Campbell and Ceolin McKeown tagged on points but Keady came back strongly with four points from, two of them from the excellent Comiskey and one each from Katie Donnelly and Annie McKeown to draw level just minutes from the break. Suddenly there was a different complexion to the game but in the minutes before the short whistle Thompson added two points before finishing the first half on a high, following good approach work by midfielder Dervla McMullan to send her team in five points to the good.

That proved a great boost for the Garron Tower girls and they were on the front foot from the restart, Thompson again leading the line as she slotted over three more points. Eight minutes into that second period second half substitute Georgie Twigg made her mark when she grabbed goal number three for the north Antrim team. Keady had a chance to get back into the game when they were awarded a penalty nearing the end of the third quarter, but Katie Donnelly’s shot was well saved by Ellen McAlister in the St Killian’s goal and the Armagh teams’ chances were gone. They battled away against the odds but the Tower were not going to be stopped and Twigg set up Anna Birt for her second goal and substitute Naoise O’Mullan added her team’s fifth in injury time to put them 13 clear at the final whistle.

St Killian’s: Ellen McAlister, Niamh Higgins, Clodagh McAuley, Dana McKenna , Aoife Campbell 0-1, Laoiseach McNaughton, Emily Elliot, Dervla McMullan, Ceolin McKeown 0-1, Katie Burns, Anna Birt 2-2, Orlaith Quinn, Gabriella McNeill, Clíodhna Thompson 1-7 (0-2fs), Ciara McDonnell

Subs: Georgie Twigg 1-1 for C McDonnell (ht), Lucia Trainor for G McNeill (47), Naoisé O’Mullan 1-0 for D McKenna (55), Eimear Black for K Burns (58), Hannah Abram, Megan Kelly, Kodi Kerr, Cathryn McCormick, Aoife Molloy

St Patrick’s: N Digby 1-0, M Comiskey 0-6 (4fs), A Grimley, A McGeown and K Donnelly 0-1 each.

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