Young guns step up for O’Connor

As the clock whittled down in the dying minutes of normal time, Kieran Donaghy suddenly stopped with ball in hand short of the halfway line in front of the Páirc Esler stand.

After what seemed like an eternity and with no opposing player attempting to tackle, he turned his back to the Down goal and eventually hand-passed the ball to a team-mate.

The home crowd were incensed with what they interpreted as an act of showmanship by the former Footballer of the Year.