St Columba’s, Glasnevin 3-1 St Mary’s Bancroft 0-5
Goals won this game for St Columba’s Glasnevin.
For much of the Corn Pádraig Ó Fogartaigh decider, St Columba’s Glasnevin were hanging on. By the end of it, they’d mastered the art of closing out a lead.
The northside school got off to an absolute belter of a start in the decider in Croke Park, their powerful and pacy midfielder Lucy Ahern setting the tempo straight from the throw-in.
Ahern won that, before racing down the opposite end of the field to set up an early score for Glasnevin, setting them on their way.
But St Mary’s Buncroft have guts and they have resilience in spades. They never led in this game but they never went away either. Full forward and captain Katie Callery was their leader and standout player.
She kicked a few fine scores from open play, while her teammate Hannah Dillon also chipped in. In defence, Amber Yeaters and Katie Sherlock kept them Glasnevin out and kept Bancroft in the game, but in the end, the classy Ahern broke through to rattle the net to seal a hard earned victory for St Columba’s.
Ahern was on a different level on Monday, gliding past opponents with consummate ease and the winning captain is certainly a Dublin ladies star for the future.
Emily Rea and Éabha McGowan were the other star players for the winners.
Player of the match: Lucy Ahern
St Columba’s Glasnevin
1 Louise Richardson 2 Emily Rea 3 Kitty Purdue 4 Mia Liddy 5 Maud Lily Kennedy 6 Carla Cheyrou Lagrez 7 Éabha McGowan 8 Ruth Ennis (1-0) 9 Luch Ahern (2-0) 10 Aoife Rose Bailey 11 Roisin Bratt 12 Áine Grufferty 13 Grace Harding 14 Carla Mullarkey 15 Roisin Quigley
Subs used: 21 Amy Henry 22 Grace Fitzgerald (0-1)
Goal 8, point 22, two goals 9
St Mary’s Bancroft
1 Kheshika Vani Whotun 2 Ruslana Karmazina 3 Amber Yeaters 4 Jessica Hulgraine 5 Holly McEvoy 6 Katie Sherlock 7 Gabrielle Curtis 8 Amy Finn (0-1) 9 Rebecca O’Connell 10 Sarah Moody 11 Hannah Dillon Ritchie (0-1) 12 Amelia Keser 13 Éabha Maguire 14 Katie Callery (0-3) 15 Lucy Higgins
Subs used: 17 Amber Rafferty 18 Maja Grabczak
