KILDARE SFC FINAL St Laurence's 1-13 Moorefield 0-6: ST LAURENCE'S upset the odds in breathtaking fashion in Newbridge yesterday when they beat the hot favourites to claim their first ever Kildare senior football title.
In his victory speech, team captain Mossie Doyle talked about how the Larries had been knocking on the door so long.
“By God we burst it down today” he said, to raucous cheers.
Five frees from Barry Mackey helped the Narraghmore parish side to a deserved 0-7 to 0-3 interval advantage.
Dessie Lawler had been fouled for a couple of Mackey’s frees and scored a point as well by the time he pounced for what was the match-sealing goal just four minutes after the resumption.
That put eight points between the sides and it was a gap Moorefield never looked like bridging.
ST LAURENCE'S: S Connolly; C Roche, N Clynch, S Murphy; K O'Brien, T O'Neill, P Kearney; I Keatley, M Doyle; P O'Neill, D Lawlor (1-3), B Mackey (0-6, frees); J Fogarty (0-1), R Lawlor (0-2), D Grufferty (0-1, free). Subs: A Flood for Fogarty (55 mins), S Fahey for R Lawlor (58 mins).
MOOREFIELD: T Corley; I Lonergan, K O'Neill, P O'Flynn; K Murnaghan, G Naughton; L Keane; R Glavin (0-1), D Flynn; D Whyte (0-2), C Kelly, R Sweeney (0-1, frees); P Murray (0-2, one free), J Phillips, P Woulfe. Subs: N Hurley Lynch for Murnaghan (37 mins), F Hanniffy for Flynn (43 mins), C Corrigan for Woulfe (49 mins).
Referee: F Barry(Monasterevan).
