Árd Scoil keep rising as Downes denies Flannan’s at the death

Árd Scoil Rís 0-10 St Flannan’s 0-9

FOR much of this Harty Cup quarter-final replay at LIT yesterday it looked like we were going to have to come back for yet another day, as two very skilful and evenly matched sides again locked horns to see who would go on to meet St Caimin’s of Shannon in the semi-final.

Ultimately, and cruelly for the storied Ennis school, it was the Limerick city college which advanced but only after Árd Scoil Rís had first survived two late goal scares, and then managed to work an injury-time free from Kevin Downes, dead straight in front of the posts on the 20m line.