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Tue 10 Oct 2008Clinical Crokes reach their goal
DUBLIN SFC FINAL (replay)/Kilmacud Crokes 3-6 St Oliver Plunketts 0-13:HOPE LIVES. After a depressing summer for Dublin football, followed by a limp county championship, the game reasserted itself in the capital last night with a wonderful county final replay which was won in the most dramatic of circumstances by a Kilmacud Crokes side whose second half scoring was limited to a couple of fisted goals.
St Oliver Plunketts, seeking a first title, had turned in a superb performance decorated by a remarkable personal display from Bernard Brogan but a vulnerability to the high ball into their own square undid them in the end.
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