Long road home for Barrowhouse after losing out to Killashee
There was no fairytale ending for Kodi Dunne and his Barrowhouse team mates when they lost out to Killashee in the Leinster Club JFC Photo: Denis Byrne
BARROWHOUSE faced the long journey to Glennon Brothers Pearse Park on Sunday to take on Longford champion St Brigid’s Killashee in the opening round of the AIB Leinster Club Junior Football Championship.
Unfortunately the journey home would have seemed a lot longer after the Laois champions could not match the home team and lost out by nine points.
St Brigid’s Dylan Farrell was a real thorn in the Barrowhouse side scoring an remarkable total of 2-10 for his side.
St Brigid’s scored the opening two points through Dylan Farrell and Johnny Casey. Ronan Kavanagh missed a good goal in the fourth minute, but Barrowhouse responded in the best possible way.
Inside the next minute they fund the back of the St Brigid’s net when full forward James Baldwin fired past Barry Geraghty putting the Laois men a point ahead.
Dylan Farrell responded with a two-pointer and another point in the seventh minute while Michael Farrell converted a free to give St Brigid’s a three-point lead.
Brian Malone and Oran Kelleher replied for Barrowhouse to reduce the arrears to a single point with twelve minutes on the clock.
Barrowhouse keeper Darragh Phelan made a brilliant to deny Paddy Mollaghan. But St Brigid’s then went on a scoring spree for the rest of the opening half hitting 1-4 without reply.
Dylan Farrell scored three points while Niall McCormack added another.
Darragh Phelan made another one-on-one save denying Farrell but the Darragh Phelan did find the net with his next chance just before the half-time whistle to give St Brigid’s an eight-point lead at the break, 1-10 to 1-2.
Niall McCormack and Kodi Dunn swapped points on the restart before Dylan Farrell’ free gave St Brigid’s a nine-point lead.
Lee Dunne fired over a brilliant two-pointer for Barrowhouse only for Dylan Farrell to score a point for St Brigid’s.
Any hopes Barrowhouse may have harboured of a victory were quashed in the 49th minute. A long ball in from Jack Magan was caught by Evan Farrell and although he fumbled the ball, the referee awarded what seemed like a harsh penalty for a pick-up of the ground by a Barrowhouse player. Dylan Farrell duly slotted home the penalty to put St Brigid’s 11 points ahead.
Lee Day responded with a point for Barrowhouse and he then had a shot brilliantly saved by St Brigid’s keeper Barry Geraghty.
Dylan Farrell and Michael Farrell scored the last two points of the match, those after Phelan had made another outstanding save.
Barrowhouse got a consolation goal deep into stoppage time when the Baldwin twins combined when Andrew latched onto James’ fisted ball and fire the ball to the net.
Dylan Farrell 2-10 (1-0 pen, 1 two-pointer, 0-4fs), Niall McCormack and Michael Farrell (0-1f), 0-2 each, Johnny Casey 0-1.
Barrowhouse: Lee Day 0-3 (1 two-pointer), James Baldwin and Andrew Baldwin 1-0 each, Kodi Dunne, Oran Kelleher and Brian Malone 0-1 each.
Barry Geraghty; Shane Cosgrove, Keelan Cox, Briain Farrell; Keelan James Willis, Ronan Kavanagh, Paddy Clancy; Michael Farrell, Jack Magan; Niall McCormack, Dylan Farrell, Colin Cousins; Paddy Mollaghan, Johnny Casey, Evan Farrell.
James Campbell for Willis (56m), Darren Cosgrove for Magan (56m), Michael Reilly for Mollaghan (60m), Cian Clancy for E Farrell (60m), Simon Mulvey (62m).
Darragh Phelan, Denis Brophy, Alex Robinson, Rory Grufferty, Kodi Dunne, Martin Murphy, TJ Burke, Alex Kenny, Oran Kelleher, Cillian Langton, Brian Malone, James Baldwin, Lee Day, Scott Flynn, Andrew Baldwin.
Tom Page for Flynn (41m), James Brennan for Grufferty (52m), Ben Howe for Robinson (57m), Tom McDonald for Kenny (57m).
Enda Kenny (Westmeath).
