Buckley boys fire-up Shannon

TONY BUCKLEY was starting an AIB League game for the first time. Brian Buckley was making his seasonal debut in the competition.

Not even coach Geoff Moylan, a sufficiently tough taskmaster to again leave Mick Galwey on the subs bench, expected too much of them.Yet it was the unrelated Buckleys who re-ignited Shannon's challenge for another AIL title with the late tries that inflicted a 21-15 defeat on Cork Constitution at Thomond Park on Saturday.

It was a contest that once again demonstrated that for drama and excitement, it is hard to beat a clash of these two great rivals.