Ballyboden and O’Toole’s reach decider

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA’S and O’Toole’s will contest this year’s Dublin SHC final following semi-final wins over Lucan Sarsfields and St Brigid’s respectively at Parnell Park last night.

Boden, going for a fifth successive title, were handed the perfect start when Dublin star Paul Ryan goaled inside 30 seconds and Ryan’s metronomic free-taking began to take the game away from a lacklustre Lucan.

Sarsfields only managed two points in the opening half and their task was made next-to-impossible when Ryan’s Dublin colleague Conor McCormack finished emphatically to the net in the second minute of injury-time.