St Pat’s clinch win in dramatic finale

THEY MAY have ridden their luck, but St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra will feel they deserved to qualify for the final of the Ulster Bank Trench Cup at the expense of Trinity College, Dublin at CIT yesterday.

When Barry Kennedy kicked his sixth point in the 53rd minute to put his side 0-9 to 0-6 ahead, Trinity looked to be on the way to victory, but St Pat’s, through captain Declan McKiernan and sub Cormac Rowe, forced extra-time.

There, they reeled off five unanswered points to leave Trinity too big a task, with Terry Smith’s point, TCD’s only score of the second period.