Glenullin edge extra time

Glenullin edged out Slaughtneil in an extra-time thriller as the Derry senior football championship came to life last evening.

After two fairly drab rounds of games with a catch net for safety, it was the first weekend of proper knockout and it showed as Brian Mullan’s stunning right-wing point edged the 2007 winners into the last eight, where they will face Lavey this Saturday.

Earlier in the evening, Ballinascreen repeated the same comfortable victory of last year over Steelstown. ‘Screen, having played defensively earlier in the championship, opened up and went to town as they won by 2-15 to 2-5.