Offaly opened their win account in NHL Division 1A with a comfortable 4-18 to 1-11 defeat of Down in trying conditions in Birr this afternoon.

TWO injury-time goals from corner-forward Tommy Deveraux gave Roscrea a sensational victory over Scoil Ruain in an all Tipperary Munster Vocational Schools "A" JHC final at Cashel yesterday.