Battling Clonakilty win close encounter

THIS All-Ireland Vocational Schools SFC B final turned out to be a titanic struggle at a windswept Cashel yesterday when the gale, blowing straight down the field throughout, was a major factor in the outcome.

Clonakilty CC (Cork) 2-7 Mercy Ballymahon (Longford) 2-5

Clonakilty had to work really hard to carve out this superb win, but this game could have gone either way and there can be no doubt Ballymahon folk woke up this morning wondering "what if."