Jubilation as Shamrocks end 24-year title famine

IT WASN’T pretty, but that won’t matter to Shamrocks, who ended a 24-year famine by collecting the Barry Collins Super Valu South east JAHC title at Innishannon yesterday, dismissing their underdog status to overcome gallant Kinsale.

Both sides who served for an exciting finale, but it was the Shanbally side that finished stronger, with three fine points, though Kinsale might have snatched victory at the death when Brian McSweeney stopped a goal-bound shot on the line.

It rained incessantly for the first twenty minutes and players had real difficulty adjusting to the ground conditions it took 21 minutes for the first score from play.