Shamrocks blown away by Gaels’ force

GOALS win matches, that’s what they say,” said Loughgiel’s magnificent centre-back Johnny Campbell after this hard-fought All-Ireland club SHC semi-final in Parnell Park on Saturday afternoon.

“We conceded three bad goals, all were bad breaks. We were well in the game I thought, but we missed too many scoring opportunities.”

And that was it. The Antrim champions came to Dublin in strength with massive support thronging the stands well before throw-in, and they came with one purpose – to win. “Of course we did,” said Campbell, “There were a few comments in papers about us being down here to make up numbers but f*** that, we don’t do that. We came here with total belief in ourselves, and that’s been the way with us all through this campaign.”