Powerful Adare keep grip on title

Adare 0-13 Ahane 0-8

Even in Adare, however, this one won’t live too long in the memory. It was a borefest from start to finish, never took off. Ahane were game enough in the first-half but thereafter Adare slowly but surely squeezed the life out of outclassed opposition. Newly-appointed county manager Justin McCarthy was there but won’t have learned much from this.

Playing with the aid of a strong breeze, Ahane were quickly on the scoreboard, a point from centre-forward Brian Healy after just 20 seconds, but thereafter the scoring rate died a death. 0-5 apiece it was at the break, not much for any of those in the crowd of approximately 8,000 to get excited about (the official attendance was given as 4,864, an announcement which gave rise to one of the few light moments in the media box).