Late Dingle scores deny Gneeveguilla

LAST year’s Kerry IFC champions Gneeveguilla face the prospect of an immediate return to that grade after they came up agonisingly short in a winner-take-all SFC round two clash at home to Dingle yesterday.

Late Dingle scores deny Gneeveguilla

In a game they were always chasing after the concession of two first-half goals, Gneeveguilla’s heroic second-half effort had left just one point between the sides, 2-7 to 1-9, with minutes left.

But then Dingle, who lead division one of the Kerry County League, broke away to pick off two priceless scores with Joe Sheehy adding the finishing touch to a surging Aodan O’Neill run. Paul Geaney, who jets off to America this week, kicked the game’s final score, as the west Kerry club emerged with from Gneeveguilla with a place in the third round of the competition.

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