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Thriller Goes to the Wire

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NY GAA by Eugene Kyne,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 1:19 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:56 PM

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NYPD 2-9

Galway Garda (Police) 1-11

THE contest between the rival police departments of Galway and New York took a while to get going on Saturday as the second part of the New York departments' double header. But when it did come to life it rivaled a championship encounter.

Galway had Alan Keane, the former All-Ireland winner with Galway, as their captain while New York had some guest players from New York football circles to help them in the battle at hand.

New York had a perfect start to the game, with Thomas McGovern slotting over a point before Jim McGovern finished to the net after a long ball from Robbie Moran dropped short and the bouncing football was not cleared. After a Fergal Kilbane point, New York had a further score from the lively Dan McNulty. Brian Meaney, who hails from Abbylara in Dublin, put three points on the board to get Galway back into the contest, and Jim McGovern and Pat Foley swapped scores to keep the difference at a point.

Foley should have or could have had much more as he was at the end of a long flowing movement that moved the ball the length of the field, but his screamer went over with PJ Doherty doing well to make the goal small.

Aiden Power, who had done a lot of ball carrying in the first half, had the final score of the opening 30 when he linked with Leitrim teammate Moran for an excellent score to leave the score 1-4 to 0-5 at the break for the locals.

After another Meaney point for Galway, he was making himself busy and giving the New York backs a torrid day, Joe Lyons came off the bench and with his trusty left peg fired over for the NYPD.

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