Holder Jim Carvill said goodbye to the South of Ireland title on a wet and windy afternoon at Lahinch.
The 39-year-old Warrenpoint man was beaten 2 and 1 by 22-year-old Robert McCarthy from the Island in the fourth round and confessed that he will not be playing a full championship schedule next year.
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