St Kieran's cut loose

St Kieran’s College 1-22 Dublin North 1-10

AN IMPRESSIVE third quarter helped St Kieran’s shake off Dublin North yesterday after the latter had closed to within three points, 0-13 to 1-7.

Points from Aidan Cleere (2), Hugh O’Neill and Thomas O’Hanlon pushed St Kieran’s six clear and Michael Brennan goaled to stretch the gap to nine points (1-17 to 1-8) after 41 minutes.

Niall O’Donnell had landed a goal for Dublin North after 15th minutes and they trailed by 0-13 to 1-5 at the break.

ST KIERAN’S: S Johnston; L Hickey, P O’Carroll, R O’Hanlon; C O’Neill, G Allen, E Morrissey; P Butler, H O’Neill (0-4); M Donnelly (0-4, two frees), A Cleere (0-4), T O’Hanlon (0-3); J Nolan (0-3), M Brennan (1-2), R Reid. Subs: J Power for Donnelly 42 mins, C O’Shea for Allen 43 mins, K Phelan for Reid 51 mins, C Prendergast (0-2) for Brennan 52 mins, E Gough for H O’Neill 56 mins.

DUBLIN NORTH: C Ryan; O McCabe, J Curley, E Howard; D Flaherty, C Prunty, N O’Donnell (1-0); D Forde (0-2, one free), I Cleary; P Corry, P Winters (0-2, frees), D Doyle (0-1); A Rooney (0-1), C Kilkenny (0-2, one free), G Williams (0-1). Subs: R McKenna (0-1) for Cleary 17 mins, A Harte for Howard 42 mins, P Graves for O’Donnell 46 mins, D Farrell for Corry 51 mins.

Referee: E Mansfield (Kilkenny).