O’Donnell takes All-Ireland spoils back to Fermoy
It was a historic weekend for Leinster too when Gary Shevlin of the Drogheda club won a first All-Ireland for the province. He beat Tomás Nugent (London) for the Novice II title, ending a personal famine dating back to his defeat by Mick Hurley in the 1995 novice final.
James Nagle gave an exceptional display against Declan O’Shea (North America) in the Novice I final to give Munster a second win.
In the Junior C final, O’Donnell won the opening exchange and held the lead despite a poor second. Riordan put him under pressure with a great third bowl to light. O’Donnell needed to come close to or beat that tip to stay in contention. He delivered a perfect reply and missed the tip by just 20m.
He followed with another good bowl, but Riordan beat that and, more importantly, made peeping light at the bridge. Riordan got the better of the next exchange by 80m. O’Donnell got a good bowl over the rise, which Riordan beat by 70m. O’Donnell then got a great bowl to regain the lead by 30m and held those odds with his next shot to the foot of the hill.
Riordan regained the lead with a good bowl up the hill. O’Donnell edged the next exchange by 20m with his bowl to the stonewall. Riordan made the top of the hill with his next but didn’t make light. O’Donnell went all the way with his bowl and Riordan just beat it by 30m with his next. O’Donnell closed it out with a good bowl to the water treatment plant and another past the line.
James Nagle gave a star performance against Declan O’Shea in the Novice I final. He won the opening tip with a good bowl to the water treatment plant. O’Shea put it up to him with a great second to light, but Nagle beat it. O’Shea’s third made the stonewall. Nagle’s reply decided the score — a massive bowl to the hollow.
There was a bowl between them at the bridge. O’Shea missed light at the last bend in two more and Nagle made it in two to extend his lead and he beat the line in another shot.
Gary Shevlin claimed his historic win over Tomás Nugent in the first of the three finals. He won the first two tips but Nugent won the third and fourth shots. Shevlin regained the lead with his next. He went almost a bowl clear following two poor throws from Nugent. Shevlin held his odds from there.
Paul Grimley looked to be heading for the Junior C final when he led into the last quarter against William O’Donnell and Peter Gibbons (Connacht) in Saturday’s semi-final. It all went wrong for the Armagh player in the run-in and O’Donnell caught him in the last shot. Kevin Riordan beat Leinster champion Peter Clinton in the other semi-final.
James Nagle’s semi-final win was a real cliffhanger. Only 5m separated all three players — Nagle, Padraig Nugent (London) and Shane O’Neill (Ulster) — at the last bend. O’Neill just beat the line in two, while Nagle and Nugent just missed it in one. Nagle comfortably beat Nugent’s last throw. Declan O’Shea beat Joe Sheridan (Connacht) and Alan Long (Leinster) in his semi-final.
Gary Shevlin beat Tom O’Sullivan (North America) and Kenneth Murphy (Munster) in the Novice II semi-final. Tomás Nugent beat Ger Kennedy (Connaught) and Fergal McCreesh (Ulster) in his semi-final.
Thomas Mackle beat Edmund Sexton in the feature score of the Barney Gesture Memorial cancer research fundraiser at Kildee. Mackle gained the upper hand when he made ‘Boreen-na-Parach’ after Sexton had missed.
He had almost a bowl at the next cross and increased his lead with three more to the novice line.
He made light from there and Sexton missed to leave over two bowls between them.
Michael Bohane beat Brian Donovan in the last shot in the Tim Foley Cup quarter-final at Templemartin. He was almost a bowl in front after four to Slyne’s corner. Donovan took the lead by beating the schoolhouse cross in five from there, edging it by 25m.
In the Gretta Cormican Cup semi-finals Lorraine Hurley will play Triona O’Farrell-Kidney next Sunday at Killumney.
Denise Murphy takes on Juliet Murphy in the other semi-final at Gortroe on Saturday.
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