Sean O’Mahony’s players nominated for Gaelic Life All-Ireland Club All Star awards

A number of Sean O’Mahony’s players have been nominated for the Gaelic Life All-Ireland Club All Star awards.

The nominations come after the Point Road outfit triumphed in the Leinster Club Intermediate Football Championship last season.

Amongst those nominated are Kevin Brennan (goalkeeper), Pat O’Brien, Michael Clarke and Ronan Byrne (full back), Liam Dullaghan, John O’Brien, Keith McLaughlin (half back), Conor Crawley, Shane Brennan (midfield), Peter Nixon, Conor Finnegan, Barry Mackin (half forward), Stephen Fisher, Conor Martin, David Dowling (full forward).

You can vote here, with all those who take part entered into a draw to win an overnight stay in the Hillgrove Hotel in Monaghan.

Sean O’Mahony’s host awards night in Ballymascanlon House Hotel

The Sean O’Mahony’s held their their annual awards night in Ballymascanlon House Hotel on Saturday with plenty to celebrate after their Louth and Leinster Intermediate Championship successes last year.

On the night those in attendance were entertained by Inniskeen’s Oliver Callan while a number of awards were handed out.

Shane Brennan was named Players’ Player of the Year while Ronan Byrne picked up the management’s Player of the Year prize.

Junior Player of the Year went to Gavin Gray while former County Board chairman Paddy McMahon was honoured with a place in the club’s Hall of Fame.

There was also a special award on the night for Pat O’Brien for 35 years of service to the club.

O’Mahony’s advance to Leinster semi-finals with victory over Castleknock

The Sean O‘Mahony’s booked their place in the Leinster Club IFC semi-finals with a hard foguht 1-10 to 0-12 victory over Castleknock after extra time in Clan na Gael Park yesterday afternoon.

Points from Stephen Fisher and Conor Martin in the second period of extra-time proved decisive in the end as the Point Road outfit advanced to the last four.

Despite conceding the opening point, two Stephen Kilcoyne points either side of scores from Liam Dullaghan and Conor Finnegan had the Dundalk side ahead.

They then doubled their advantage when Conor Martin got on the end of a long delivery to flick the ball to the net to leave it 1-4 to 0-1.

Castleknock responded with for successive points at that stage but a further Kilcoyne point meant the O’Mahony’s led by 1-5 to 0-5 at the break.

Four points without reply from Dessie Carlos had the Dublin side in front soon after the restart, however, before the O’Mahony’s restored their lead with points from Fisher and Finnegan.

The visitors managed to level again though before both sides passed up good chances to steal it before extra time was required.

Castleknock briefly forged in front at the start of extra-time but a Ronan Byrne point left the sides level once more at the break.

Fisher and Martin then fired over on the restart to put the O’Mahony’s in the driving seat and despite Castleknock responding, the men from the Quay did enough to hold out for the victory.

Meanwhile in the Leinster JFC, Drogheda outfit the Oliver Plunketts advanced to the quarter-finals courtesy of a 0-8 to 0-7 victory over Craobh Chiarain from Dublin in Drogheda on Saturday afternoon.

Sean O’Mahony’s: Kevin Brennan; Pat O’Brien, Mickey Clarke, Ronan Byrne 0-1; Keith McLaughlin, John O’Brien, Kurt Murphy; Shane Brennan, Peter Nixon; Conor Finnegan 0-2, Liam Dullaghan 0-1, Stephen Fisher 0-2; Conor Crawley, Conor Martin 1-1, Stephen Kilcoyne 0-3. Subs: Gary Mulligan for K McLaughlin, Barry Mackin for C Martin, Keith McLaughlin for B Mackin, David Dowling for K Murphy, Conor Martin for D Dowling, Alan Watters for P O’Brien.

 

GMIT students teach Louth a lesson in Kehoe Cup

Former player Diarmuid McCarthy is in charge of the Louth hurlers this year

Louth’s hurlers made a losing start to the year when they went down to GMIT on a 4-22 to 1-9 scoreline in the first round of the Kehoe Cup in Darver on Sunday.

There were a number of new faces on the Wee County team for Diarmuid McCarthy’s first competitive game in charge.

However, despite some promising moments a three goal burst from the visitors inside five second half minutes ensured that the students ran out easy winners in the game.

Louth were well in it in the early stages with points from Shane Maguire and Shane Callan leaving the sides level at 0-2 apiece. GMIT then responded with six unanswered points and although David Mahony replied with a free, a goal moments later rom Shane Moloney left the Connacht outfit 1-8 to 0-3 ahead.

Mahony did manage a further point for Louth before the break but it couldn’t prevent them from trailing by 1-14 to 0-4 at the interval.

Ronan Byrne and Mahony fired over quickfire points on the restart before the latter found the net to close the gap to 1-16 to 1-8.

However, GMIT upped the tempo once more and scored 3-1 in the space of five minutes to set them up for an easy win with Moloney adding a second goal and Gary Brennan also hitting a brace.

LOUTH: J Connolly; P McCormack, J Carter, A McCrave; C Hayes, B Carter, C Ryan; J Condon, S Callan (0-2); D O’Hanrahan (0-1), A Mackin, G Rellis; David Mahony (1-4, 4f), D Kettle, S Maguire (0-1). Subs: R Byrne (0-1) for D Kettle (34), S Kettle for Maguire (56), D Reid for McCrave (62), O Drumm for G Rellis (67).