Clinical Fr Casey’s score convincing win over Ballysteen in Limerick senior football championship

FR CASEY’S scored a convincing win over West Limerick rivals Ballysteen on a score line of 3-14 to 0-7 to return to winning ways in Group Two of the Irish Wire Products County Senior Football Championship Round Three in Newcastlewest on Friday evening.

Following two straight losses, Ballysteen faced a must-win game against the eight-time county champions but the match was over as a contest by the halfway mark with three quick-fire goals putting ten points between the sides, 3-5 to 0-4. Mark McCarthy, Rory O’Brien, and Eoin Riordan raised those green flags for the Abbeyfeale men.

Fr Casey’s continued to assert their dominance after the restart scoring four points without reply including an Oisin Woulfe effort from range. Ballysteen’s first score of the second half came in the 52nd minute from the boot of Tomás Sheahan but the game was well and truly over at that point with the scoreboard reading 3-9 to 0-5.

Sheahan and Sean Whelan kicked Ballysteen’s final scores of the evening as Fr Casey’s added four further points, including two Adrian Enright efforts from play to wrap up the game in a comprehensive win for the Abbeyfeale men,

The Abbeyfeale men will now focus on their Round Four meeting with Kildimo Pallaskenry next week in Newcastlewest. Meanwhile, Ballysteen will face a must-win game against Oola in Mungret if they are to avoid a relegation battle.

SCORERS: Fr Casey’s: Eliah Riordan 1-3 (1f), Adrian Enright 0-4, Eoghan O’Connell 0-2 (2f), Mark McCarthy 1-1 (1f), Rory O’Brien 1-0, Oisin Woulfe 0-1, Marc Nolan 0-1, Sean Kilbridge 0-1, Martin Scannell 0-1 (1f). Ballysteen: Tomás Sheahan 0-2 (2f), Sean Whelan 0-1, Danny Neville 0-1, Darragh Ranahan 0-1, Fiachra Butler 0-1, Padraigh McMahon 0-1.

FR CASEY’S: Shane O’Connell, Fiachra Cotter, Culann Quigley, Mark McCarthy, Mike Kilbridge, Sean Kilbridge, Cathal Harnett, Daniel Daly, Diarmuid Buckley, Eliah Riordan, Rory O’Brien, Oisin Woulfe, Martin Scannell, Adrian Enright, Eoghan O’Connell. Subs: DJ Stack for Daniel Daly (29 mins), Tommy O’Keefe for Fiachra Cotter (45 mins), Dylan O’Connor for Oisín Woulfe (47 mins), Marc Nolan for Martin Scannell (47 mins), Killian McSweeney for Rory O’Brien (56 mins).

BALLYSTEEN: Brian Neville, Luke Gammell, Calum Daly, Jason Daly, Eddie Murphy, Patrick Moran, Sam Colgan, Jamie O’Sullivan, Padraigh McMahon, Tomás Sheahan, Darragh Ranahan, Fiachra Butler, Paul O’Shaughnessy, Danny Neville, Mike Boyce. Subs: Alan McGrath for Luke Gammell (36 mins), Sean Whelan for Paul O’Shaughnessy (41 mins), Luke Gammell for Padraigh McMahon (51 mins)

REFEREE: Kieran Guina (Castlemahon).