Students all set for Stephens rematch

UCD 0-15 Oulart-the-Ballagh 1-9

Yesterday UCD were tested every which way by a talented Oulart-the-Ballagh side that came to Nowlan Park with serious intent. “Last year, winning the county championship was a big thing to us,” said Oulart full-back Martin Rossiter, who had a stormer.

“A few elder statesmen, the likes of Martin Storey, Liam Dunne, Paul Finn, it was nice to win it for them, but we have a lot of young lads on the team also, and it was nice to win it for ourselves too, we never knew that feeling. I thought we were just sort of happy, content, to get that far last year, but when we played James Stephens (they lost to the eventual All-Ireland champions by just six points), we saw that we could go the extra step, contend in Leinster, maybe win Leinster. The goal this year was to do that, get over the county championship first, then give Leinster a good go. I think we managed that today.”