Victory For Shannon-St. Mary’s In U19 League Final

A new name was added to the Kiely Cup when Shannon-St. Mary’s edged out Bandon in the final of the Avonmore SuperMilk Munster Under 19 League Final at CIT.

Bandon 6, Shannon-St-Mary’s 8.
Shannon-St. Mary’s will now represent Munster in the All Ireland Series next month after this hard fought victory.
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This game was in the balance right up to the end when the Limerick Parish side settled the contest with a try from out half Conor Burns following a ruck close to the Bandon line.

Bandon did rally with time running out but the nearest they came to a score was drop goal effort by out half Jack Murphy which fell short of the posts.

Shannon-St. Mary’s had the advantage of the strong wind in the opening half and Simon Gallagher looked like he was in for a try for the Limerick side but was held up on the line.

Burns was off target with a long range penalty attempt for Shannon-St. Mary’s but made amends on twenty seven minutes when he opened the scoring with a penalty from the Twenty Two.

Bandon struck back and were level on the stroke of half time when scrum half Richard Walsh kicked a penalty.

Walsh put Bandon ahead with a second penalty effort twelve minutes into the second half, a lead they held until Shannon’s late revival.

Scorers Bandon: Richard Walsh 2 penalties.

Shannon-St. Mary’s: Conor Burns 1 try & 1 penalty.

Bandon: Gearoid Crowley; Christian Mulcahy, Jack Robinson, Olan Crowley, Gearoid O’Leary; Jack Murphy, Richard Walsh; Colin Jackson, Kevin Hurley, Ross Bateman; Fionn O’Murchu, Nicky Walsh; Tadhg O’Donovan, Darragh Coffey, Michel Beecher.
Replacements: Andrew Fitzgibbon, James Hill, Darren Curtin, Enda Phelan, Eoin Kelly, Brian Crowley, Mighty Okafor.

Shannon-St. Mary’s: Ronan Hunt; Shane Ryan, Tim Tobin, Mel Corbett, Niall Fitzgerald; Conor Burns, David Evans; Gearoid Heelan, Graham Britchfield, David Wallace; Piaras O’Flynn, Craig McCallum; Ryan Meaney, Eoin McCabe, Cronan Gleeson.
Replacements: Damien Joy, Danny O’Shaughnessy, Simon Gallagher, Devlin Price, Conor Rafferty, Ben Coady, Scott Cusack.

Referee: Robert Coughlin (M.A.R.)