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E-mailNY GAA: Leitrim take league title
LEITRIM took home the special league title on Saturday evening with a display that showed tremendous desire and heart. Reminiscent of the semifinal they survived, the last 15 minutes with 14 men on the field after a straight red saw Ken O’Connor take an early bath.
Down were coming on strong and had scored the last five points of the game, but they ran out of time against the victorious Leitrim side.
Leitrim again had a brilliant start to the contest, (they also did against Cork in the semi). They put 1-4 on the board by the 14th minute. with Jamie Doolin getting the net shaker. They would have had a second goal but for a timely save by Mark Kelly on John O’Neill.
The game had already had its first controversy at this point with O’Connor very fortunate to be left on the field after a late challenge on Michael Sloan. Pakie Downey finally put Down on the board with an excellent score after 18 minutes, and it was followed by a Robbie Moran point a minute later.
O’Connor and Dan Doona had two further scores for Leitrim, Doona on the second attempt, before Moran again had a score for Down when Downey was fouled.
With the score now at 1-6 to 0-3, Down were increasingly getting more involved. They were stopping attacks that had ended in scores earlier in the game and were moving the ball intelligently out the field from the back line.
One such move involved Moran and Mark Dobbins, with the final pass finding a charging Sean Kelly on the 21 of Leitrim. His shot found Astoria teammate Pa Ryan and the ball was in the net. Doona did have a point before the break, but Down were now very much back in the game.
Leitrim again had an excellent start to the second half when they had four of the first five points to push the lead out to 1-11 to 1-4. Alas the first twelve minutes will not be remembered for that, however. T
en minutes in John Goldrick set off on a solo run from the 70 yard line in the Down half. When he arrived at the 45 he was met by James Mitchell, the Down center half who made sure that he would advance no further.
An inexplicable yellow card later and Goldrick was stretched out on the floor. Within moments Doona and Diarmuid Hayes were in the book with cards for extra activities as the game continued in that vein.
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