St. Vincent’s stave off late Plunkett’s comeback to retain Dublin crown

That’s what it looks like to win a club championship title.

The joy is beaming all over the face of St. Vincent’s full forward Ciaran Dorney after the All-Ireland champions beat St. Oliver Plunkett’s by a point to claim their 27th Dublin senior football championship, winning 0-14 to 1-10.

In a bill that headlined two heavyweights of the country, Bernard Brogan v Diarmuid Connolly, it was actually Dorney who led the way for the champs kicking three from play.  Brogan did raise five white flags of his own as his side chased their first senior crown.

With a 0-7 to 0-5 lead at the break, Vincent’s came out and stretched the deficit to six, looking home and hosed until that man again, Alan Brogan, decided to throw a spanner in the works when he rattled to goals throughout a 1-2 salvo for Plunkett’s that had the white jerseys shaken but the champions hung on and squeezed through to defend their Leinster crown where they begin on November 9 when they take on the winners of Portlaoise and the Leinster champions.

I know what you’re thinking, “But what about Diarmuid Connolly?”

Don’t worry, the Footballer of the Year candidate might not have been his usual outrageous self but he still managed to strike a left-footed worldie in the first half – that off his supposedly weaker foot.

And sure we’ve thrown in a picture for good measure!

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