First two games have been played, Castlewellan winning the preliminary last week and ourselves spanking Monaghan Harps this afternoon in terrible conditions. They were 0-6 to 0-2 up at half time, with McGourty playing across the backline as it was obvious he wouldn't receive much ball in the gale force winds. After half time however, he took control of the game, scoring a fantastic goal inside the first ten seconds. He ended up with 2-5 I think from our total of 2-10, including a point from either sideline and a free from the forty-five. No doubt in my mind now that he's the best young footballer in Ulster, he's come on so much even in the year since I played with him.
Galls 2-10 Harps 0-09
Any chance for the rest of the fixtures for this competition gallsman?
Saturday December 9th
Coalisland (Tyrone) Vs. Crossmaglen (Armagh) (1)
Sunday December 10th
Donegal Champions v Tempo (Fermanagh) (2)
Cavan Gaels (Cavan) v Castlewellan (Down) (3)
Sunday December 17th
(1) Vs. (2)
Tuesday December 26th
St. Galls Vs. (3)
Monday January 1st
Final
Thank you :)
Its been a long day NKAB!!!
Good win for St Galls then, but the winners of Coalisland and Crossmaglen will win the whole thing. As for your boy Mc Gourty, no doubt hes a good player but to say hes the best in Ulster, thats stretching it abit.
where or who was the Derry representative?
Dungiven were beaten 1-11 to 1-4 by Castlewellan last Sunday in the preliminary round. Nrico, would you care to nominate someone better out there? He's as good as anyone in the province.
I will...
Justin Crozier.
Antrim Minor Captain.
if you don't know who he is, ask any member of your senior team ;)
Crozier is indeed a cracking player, no doubt about it, and is certainly a huge part of Antrim's future, but from my view McGourty is a better player. If you want to play little games like that, why don't you ask Nemo Rangers od Salthill who CJ is......?? ;)
who? Salthill as in AI Champions Salthill?!
McGourty is a quality player, top quality. His attitude stinks and his antics at the minor setup sickened my balls. Give me Justy anyday.
Yes Slim, All Ireland Champions Salthill. Remember we made it out of Ulster and all the way to the final only to fall at the final hurdle? No? ;) His attitude has come on immensey Slim, he fianlly appears to be growing up. I don't think he's best suited as our minor captain this year, as his mouth will emerge at some stage. As I've said Justy is a great player, but he doesn't have the skills CJ does.
he doesnt have the skills ;D
yeah-he cant play hurling!!
his attitude was great not 6 months ago in the Ulster Final when he left early with his father and more or less said 'f**k the rest of ye'
Someone better. Tyrone have 3 excellent young players coming through, all of whom would be better. Justin Mc Mahon, Raymond Mulgrew and Gareth Devlin. Donegal have a gem in Dualtach Molloy, amazing player. And I have seen Crozier, different type of player than mc gourty, but a player who will adapt to senior alot better than mcgourty.
Gallsman,
A talent he is that for sure, however recent stories i have heard from reliable sources suggest a dark side, Allegedly he and his father punted "His Services to the Highest Bidder in the UNI Front, with the grades he had, that is disgraceful, he,s lucky to be anywhere in Third level at all, and then to not turn up to U21 Trials and allegedly inform management that you are the best in the county and don't have to Trial at all. They leave you out of panel then Daddy comes on to complain allegedly and then confirm that he is the Best, Christ what is this world comming to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colm Cavanagh is the most over rated young player of everyone mentioned here!
Any news on who all is nominated for the St Paul's Ulster All-Stars
Surely Jim Kelly,Patsy Bradley and the McEldowney twins will be in the running from Slaughtneil.
Why who mentioned him?? As for over rated, u mustnt have watched him that much. We'll see how hes doing in a few years in comparison with ur man mcgourty.
From what I've seen from underage football in the last couple of years, there is no footballer who comes close to McGourty in terms of attacking play. Some of his long range and sideline points would grace any senior game. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that ST Galls wins this tournament simply because of CJ's contribution. Ciaran McGinley of Errigal was the class act last year in this tournament - Mr Versatility.
Coalisland v Crossmaglen - the S Armagh boys will be out to avenge last year's reversal at the hands of Errigal.
Cross only pulled away in their county final against the Ogs, not impressive at all. A few of the ogs lads were in bad shape as well with their formal being just 36 hours before throw in! Not name any names here.
Coalisland will wipe the floor with Cross. They hammered a Donnaghmore team in their county final that hammered the ogs in a friendly week before both county finals!
Nrico, I don't doubt that in a few years Colie Cavanagh will have experienced considerably more success than CJ, but that is simply due to his being a Tyrone man. CJ would have walked onto any minor team in the country last year.
In light of O'Neill's post, perhaps I should revise my opinion to him being the best young attacker.
You thought Ciaran McGinley was the best player on that team O'Neill? Having played (and lost narrowly) to that Errigal side, I would have said John Kelly or Aaron Monaghan were the two best players on the team, with Barry Canavan not too far behind.
I hadn't heard the one CJ's services being punted arpund to the highest bidder, but it sounds a lot like bullsh*t to me. It's very easy to come on a message board and say stuff like that.
I'll agree his attitude stinks however. After 10 years as a great talent with an enormous mouth I'm not sure if he can change at this stage. Kevin has improved over the years as he has matured but CJ I think is probably worse than Kevin was - probably because there isn't a player on the team close to him, where as on our team Kevin wasn't necessarily the star of the show every day.
I'd love to see the Galls go on and win the thing. It would be a great achievement and would keep the momentum going at underage, with hopefully a few of the boys graduating to the seniors in th not too distant future
the fianna won by 3 points, another hard fought game for them. their defence seems 2 be their strong point, their fowards missed a lot of chances, could well be seen as favourites for the final!
Coalisland 0-9 Killybegs (Donegal) 0-6
Report from Na Fianna Website:
The minors made it throught to the final of the Ulster Tournament with a hard fought victory over Killybegs. It wasn't easy to watch as our young blues controlled the game for long periods but couldnt convert their possession into scores. In fact it was the nineteenth minute before Thornton scored from a forty-five to open the fianna account.
Before that the lads had taken the wrong option or shot just wide on numerous occasions when on another day things would have gone right for them and they would have been well in front.
We reached half time trailing by 0-03 v 0-02 and we thought it can only get better as surely we would click into gear in the next half. We were also concerned by the injury to the Killybegs player who had to be removed by ambulance after a collision with a Fianna player. There was great work done here by the Fianna first aider Brian Slater who kept the lad immobile until the medics arrived. Hopefully the young player will make a speedy recovery.
After a long break the Donegal lads warmed up again but we did not, we wondered? Killybegs started sharper and scored to go two in front but that was the only benefit of the warm up as we pulled back to level 4 v 4. There then came a period when we could not get near the Killybegs lads and they ran through to score twice but it could have been more, score now 6 v 4. We now entered the last quarter and this never say die team started to do what they do best, we had Mackers powering through from defence to set up a score, Toner powering through to take his own score, O' Hagan winning the ball and laying it off for a score, then Carberry slotting one over from an impossible angle and Galvin my man of the match crowning his performance with a lovely score to finally break the Killybegs resolve. This was not just a game of scorers as in fact they know they missed too many but the defence held tight and kept us in it only conceding 6 points in a full game is testament to their hard work. Well done lads but could you think of the possible heart attacks you are causing in the crowd and switch it on a little sooner, thanks, for another fantastic day out the large Fianna contingent really enjoyed it, at least when the whistle went.
This years Ulster Minor Club Tournament, run by Cumann Naomh Pól, will be the 25th year of competition.
We are proud to announce new sponsors for both the Tournament and the All Stars. Northern Bank has a long history of being involved in supporting the community. As Northern Ireland's largest financial institution, they see it as vitally important that they contribute to the community and get involved in places where we live and do business – nationally, regionally and locally. This obviously ties in very readily with the aims and ethos of the GAA, where we have community built structures at Club, County and All Ireland levels. We look forward to working with them and are sure that their sponsorship will add to what is already the premier underage club competition in Ireland. To celebrate this landmark year of competition we have decided to ask members of the Ulster GAA Writers Association to select their team of the tournament from every player that has competed during the last 25 years. Selection will be based on their success throughout their playing career, not only their contribution at minor level. We are therefore requesting individuals to nominate players for inclusion in the team. It would be beneficial to the nominee if along with the nomination you include some details of the achievements of those nominated. Details should include:
1. Name
2. Club
3. Year they played in the competition
4. Club achievements
5. County achievements
6. Honours won
7. Any other information you feel appropriate
From the full list of nominees received members of the Ulster GAA writers will select 45 players from which they will finally select the all-star team. Everyone that is included on the list of 45 will be invited to a gala dinner to be held in Belfast City Hall, on Friday 16th February 2007, at which the team selection will be announced.
Following the publication of the 45 nominations the public will be asked to select their team. The person closest to the GAA writers selection will be invited to the presentation dinner along with other prizes
We also intend to publish a history of the tournament and would therefore appreciate any memories or anecdotes either serious or humorous; we would also welcome copies of any photographs or press cuttings concerning the competition.
We are confident that this will prove to be a very prestigious award and are sure that any player would be proud to be nominated.
Further details of the teams that have competed and nominations as they are received can be obtained from St Paul's website: http://stpauls.antrim.gaa.ie
Nominations should be forwarded to:
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Fax: 02890 301009
Post: St Pauls GAC
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Anybody know who would be in running for this team?
Braved the elements and a dodgy stomach to take a scoot down to St Paul's today to watch Cavan Gaels dispose of St Gall's in the semis, 3-8 to 0-8. Although the scoreline suggests a one-sided affair, the outcome was in the balance until shortly after half time when Cavan rattled off 1-3 without reply. The game took a while to warm up and it wasn't until 5-6 mins when the first score arrived, from the boot of Gaels' Martin Dunne the left corner forward. Little did we know but this was the first point of a 2-5 tally the youngster would claim. Until this point it seemed St Gall's had the measure of their opponents with David Cummings (CHF) fielding well. McGourty (FF) was well marshalled, often bordering on the illegal, but sure that's something he'll have to get used to. Something else he'd need to cut out is his constant berating of his fellow players as well as umpires and referee. I'd say he'd get a few more decisions in his favour that way. Best for Cavan in the early stages was the highly impressive CHB, Daniel Graham. He's an excellent reader of the game and not afraid to bomb forward, often doing the raiding jobs his LHB and RHB failed to do. Sean Higgins (CHF) for Cavan also had the measure of Harbinson (CHB) and repeatedly skinned him. I thought the Galls' management were slow to act here. Two consecutive poor kickouts from the Galls' keeper, McCann, were finally punished when Higgins fielded, fed Reilly with an exquisite pass and the LHF slotted over. At 2-0 Cavan were starting to exert their dominance in most sectors but to their credit St Gall's notched 0-3 to hit the front. A fine Anto McCaffrey (MF) point was followed by an over from Dowds and a splendid long-range McGourty point off his left foot. Unfortunately, that was his finest moment in the game.
Cavan responded with a goal from Dunne, deflected into the net by full back Gribbon. Gribbon's game then left him and he had a nightmare 30-40 minutes consequently, fumbling and misreading. He repeatedly fouled and was on two occasions guilty of backchat which resulted in the ball being moved forward, one of those pointed by Dunne. Cummings knocked over two frees for Gall's to leave it 1-3 to 0-5 in Cavan's favour. It was disappointing at this stage to see the Cavan players indulge in the theatricals although they seemed to be reacting to the vociferous support they were receiving from the Cavan crowd. Disaster struck again for the Milltown men when the goalkeeper McCann was outfielded, the ball fed to Dunne who dispatched to the net with ease. Another Dunne free after Burke (MF) dragged him to the ground was followed by a similar placed ball score from McGourty which left the half time score 2-4 to 0-6 in Cavan's favour.
The start of the second half saw the Cavan manager comically bellow at the sizeable Cavan contingent in the crowd to make more noise for 'another 30 mins and yiz'll get your bangers when you get home'. Damien O'Hagan, his oppositional number in the final, found this particularly amusing. Also amusing was Sean McGourty's (Gall's manager) choice of headwear. Hard to know how to describe it. Not a cap, not a monkey hat – a bit of both! Anyway, 12 minutes into the second half and the game was dead. 1-3 to no score killed the game off as a contest, two wonderful Dunne points, McClary over and then a fabulous team goal, finished off by FF Levi Murphy. As with most moves, it began with Graham raiding from defence (after Thompson failed to hold onto possession, again), feeding impressive sub Niall Murray who put through Murphy. At this stage Gall's were all over the place in defence although Gribbon began to emerge from his nightmare to drive the Belfast men forward in the last 10 mins. At 3-7 to 0-6 game was up though. St Gall's hit their first point of the half on 16 mins when McGourty pointed a free after he himself was fouled. He then narrowly missed goaling for the third time in the game before hitting over another free. Dunne finished the scoring with a free to leave the long whistle signalling a 3-8 to 0-8 victory.
How was the game won? Cavan display a tremendous work ethic, mirroring the present Tyrone team's gameplan. Coalisland will need to match this. Cavan are determined bunch. They defend in numbers and attack in waves. Defensively they were intelligent and sound, marshalled well by the hugely impressive Graham, and were first to most breaking ball. Although he notched 2-5, Dunne was by no means a one-man show up front. He seemed to be more of a poacher but it wouldn't surprise me if Murphy or Higgins top scored next time. A dangerous forward unit with a great understanding. Some of the telepathic passing indicated that this was a team with a few years together under their belts. How was the game lost? St Gall's simply couldn't match Cavan's workrate, nor did they have enough players of a high enough standard, barring McGourty and Cummings in attack. CJ tried his best to drag his side into the game, but didn't really know what was expected off him, feed or be fed. In an ideal world, he'd have been picking up break ball around the middle, lumping it forward, and catching it himself!
Thanks for a very comprehensive report O Neill. Despite the fact that there is feck all love for Cavan Gaels within the county I'm delighted they are in the final and hope to christ they go on and win it. The demise of Cavan football has been a slow, painful affair and poor structures at underage level over several years has been a factor in that. You can't hope to compete at senior level if you have not got a few lads who know what it is to win something at underage level.
There are some small signs that maybe we are starting to catch up. The Gaels have won the county minor title for several years in a row. This year they had to really battle for it, going to a replay, I think, against Lurgan in what was great football I'm told. Lurgan would draw a few players from Virginia vocational school which won the Vocational All Ireland last year. Virginia in turn had to battle seriously hard to retain their county title this year, beating Bailieborough by a point a few weeks ago. So ok, it's not exactly a roll of honour that would make your average Tyrone underage offical stand up and take notice, but maybe, just maybe, there is a sign of something changing for the better. Sure hope so.
who is shaping up like the player of the tournament?
Cavam Gaels minors have won 8 of the last 9 Cavan Minor football championships! That is some recorded. Next years Gaels minor team will probably also be strong after winning the Ulster U-17 Paul McGirr tournament in Dromore this year. 9 out of 10 championships would be some going. Think Corofin in Galway hold record for winning 10 minor Championships in a row (not 100%). This years minor team are extremely good and well coached through the years! Although I agree that Cavan football has been poor its not the Gaels fault that numerous men put dedicated free time into training these underage teams!
Martin Dunne and Seanie Higgins are two outstanding young talents alright...
Leigh Jackson is a great targetman in at FF...
and Daniel Graham is an outstanding CHB....
The Gaels keep throwing these great young teams up....
Any of these lads eligible for Minor next year do you know Ballyhaise Man, or any other man or woman for that matter?
Martin Dunne and Daniel Graham are underage for Minor next year...Dont think Higgins is though...but im open to correction on that.
Yes, Dunne and Graham are still minor next year. Higgins is overage! Gaels lost by a point to Coalisland-last kick of the game so I heard.
1-14 to 3-7 to Coalisland Na Fianna
Coalisland win Ulster minor title
Coalisland fought back from seven points down to edge out Cavan Gaels 1-14 to 3-7 in Monday's Northern Bank Ulster Minor Club Football final.
A point in the third minute of injury time from Brian Toner proved decisive.
Gaels led 0-5 to 0-4 at the interval and Martin Dunne and Gerard Reilly goals extended their lead to seven.
However, Stephen McNally replied with a Coalisland goal and Toner's five later points in succession were crucial. Martin Dunne scored Gaels' other goal.
Toner's seven points earned him the man-of-the-match award while Dermot Thornton also hit four points for the winners
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/6222915.stm
Well done to the Fianna. Tyrone's youth system once again shows that its the best in the country with a seemingly endless conveyor -belt of talent :) The futures' bright - it's red & white!!
Congratulations to Coalisland Na Fianna
I hope this sets the standard for games in 2007. That second half was a joy to watch, reminiscent of the Down/Tyrone 2003 Ulster Final.
However, wintry cold conditions combined with a lacklustre first half made difficult viewing for the size-able crowd. It was Cavan who were first off the mark when the hero of the semi final, Martin Dunne (LCF), turned Hughes inside-out for for a wonderful score. You'd have thought that the writing was on the wall for Hughes but that proved to be Dunne's only score of the first half. He's a tricky player, reminds me of Linden. He seems to feed off balls played deep into the corner and his turn of speed means he'll skin most corner backs. He has a great eye for goal (4 goals in 2 games) but Hughes slowly got to grips with Dunne with the help of the other corner back O'Neill. At this early stage O'Hagan and Toner were being frustrated by the smothering tactics of the Cavan backs. Toner was getting little change out of Graham, the impressive Cavan CB. His frustration was typified by a trip on Cavan's best player Higgins (CF) which earned him a yellow.
On 6 minutes O'Hagan's goal-bound shot was saved and the resulting 45 saw Toner play it short to Thornton who laid it off to O'Hagan for the equaliser. It seemed Coalisland were set to pull away as they were picking up most breaking ball and appeared to offer more as an attacking force. They went 3-1 up with the Mugsy lookalike Eoghan Carberry notching a Mulligan-style over with his left and a Toner point from play after a fine lay-off from O'Hagan. What followed was a sustained period of pressure from Coalisland that yielded no return, mainly due to the swarming tactics from the excellent Cavan rearguard. I think it was scoreless for a 12-minute period which coincided with heavy cloudbursts. A breakaway saw Higgins reduce the deficit to a single score. As in the St Gall's game, the Cavan forwards were economical with their attacks, usually scoring when any of their full forward line were found. A foul on O'Hagan meant Toner easily put the Fianna 4-2 up from a 14 yrd free. An excellent McClary score reduced the gap again to the minimum. You could sense that the Fianna were starting to rue their poor conversation rate and silly errors began to creep into their defensive game. One such fumble saw Higgins claim the equaliser and the same player sent over a free to leave the half time score 0-5 to 0-4 in Cavan's favour.
The wind had been in Cavan's favour in the first half and it did appear that this lead wasn't enough to inspire confidence that they'd see it out, ahead. This was supported by the first score of the second half, an excellent O'Hagan point from play. The Fianna were playing with much more conviction and at 5-5 I thought they'd stretch away. What happened in the next 30 mins was a delight to behold. Fantastic football, sublime scores, brilliant blocking and enthralling entertainment. Another clumsy mix-up in the Fianna defence saw Niall Murray score the first goal of the day, 1-5 to 0-5 in Cavan's favour. A minute later the increasing dominant Higgins put Cavan 4-up from play. Another minute later and it had seemed Coalisland's world had just fallen apart. Dunne finally found himself 1-on-1 with Hughes in the corner, roasted him and goaled. 2-6 to 0-5. Another minute - another goal. Typifying their character, Coalisland stormed up the field and Steven McNally's shot received a wicked deflection, finding its way to the net. McNally was the pick of the Fianna defenders, one for the future.
So, 5 minutes into the second half we had a 2-6 to 1-5 scoreline in Cavan's favour (from 0-5 to 0-4 at HT). Coalisland were piling on the pressure with the wind at their backs when they were hit with another sucker punch, Dunne reacting quickest to fist a rebound into the net. With 15 minutes left, and the scoreline at 3-6 to 1-5, it looked like Cavan had calmed the Coalisland storm. Not a bit of it. The other Fianna corner forward, Dermot Thornton, burst into life with a wonderful point to pull back the deficit to 6. This was followed by an exhibition of free taking from the hands as Toner notched 3 long range frees in 3 minutes to leave it 3-6 to 1-9. 10 minutes left and Mugsy/Carberry hit his second point of the day. The Fianna contingent in the crowd could sense blood and Cavan were finding it mighty difficult to get out of defence. Their linchpin and commander-in-chief, Graham, was getting the runaround from the inspirational Toner. With 8 minutes left the sides were level. Thornton, on fire, fired over two superb points. 3-6 to 1-12. Suddenly, Coalisland seemed to freeze or sensed that it was job done. Cavan attacked and a splendid pass saw Murphy through on goal. McNally, somehow, got back to make a Gormley-style block to save an almost definite 4th Cavan goal. 4 minutes remaining and Coalisland hit the front. Thornton was walking on air and nonchalantly rifled over his 5th point. Coalisland's jubilation was short-lived when Cavan were awarded an extremely dubious point. I was directly behind the ball's trajectory and it did seem to be well wide before curling. 3-7 to 1-13. 4 minutes into injury time and cometh the hour, cometh Toner - a deserving match winner from play after a well worked move out of defence, a defence owing much of its success to the raiding McNally.
Final score Coailand Fianna 1-14 Cavan Gaels 3-7
This was a magnificent advert for Ulster underage football. That second half will live long in the memory. Toner is a fine player who'll be worth keeping an eye on. McNally is another in the Martin Murray/Phillip Jordan mould. Thornton, at 15 years of age, has a bright future. Carberry reminded me of Mulligan in too many ways....twas uncanny, from the blond tips, tanned appearance, shimmy, as well as some of the more dubious characteristics from his game!
For Cavan, Graham at CHB has massive potential, a man amongst boys. Dunne is a finisher. He'd need to cut out the machine-gun celebrations - came back to haunt him. Higgins at CHF is an excellent prospect.
More of this in 2007 please.
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Great Report O'Neill. Well done Na Fianna
Quotebut only one member of the current Tyrone county board , why their lack of interest , are they busy preparing for the Mc Kenna cup
Did you go round everyone in the crowd and ask them?
Taken from Na Fianna Website: http://www.coalislandfianna.com/
Na Fianna's Second Half Storm Blows Cavan Gaels Away
Some people are lucky enough to see a great team play, less people are lucky enough to support a great team and even less get to play with a great team.
Down the years a lot of us have experienced what we thought were great teams but a lot of those teams did not always fulfill their potential, yesterday those who made the trip to St. Pauls in Belfast saw a truly great team deliver on all counts and lift their well earned Ulster Champions Title.
Working together not for weeks but years this team, managers, advisors, helpers, players, all put in the hours, suffered the defeats, training on cold wet nights when nobody was watching, trainers shouting abuse, players' bodies crying out with pain and exhaustion, but they never lost hope, never lost belief, they gradually matured into a battle hardened team.
The culmination of all that hard work over all those years came good in the last 2 seasons when they have lost only one game.
It came good when they played Crossmaglen who everyone fancied for the trophy (except na fianna supprters). It came good when Killybegs pushed the lads all the way in the semi.
And finally yesterday it came good when in spite of wind, rain, three goals and time running out the Minors stepped up to the mark and said we will not be beaten we have come too far been through too much we are not going to lose.
And do it they did by gradually sapping the Cavan team's confidence by scoring point after point and winning possession and interceptions to the point where the young gaels could not get out of their own half.
Not only did they refuse to even think about such an idea as defeat but they slowly convinced their mentors that they were in control and they turned a downhearted crowd of supporters into an ever growing loud roar as they pegged the score back without ever seeming to panic. To be honest they seemed to be the only ones who were not losing heart early in the second half, they had the belief and as we all knew they had the ability.
Unfortunately I get too involved in games to really be able to write an accurate report so please forgive this attempt.
Thanks lads for the brilliant football, not just yesterday but over the last number of years it has been a pleasure to follow you and watch you grow. Thanks to the management team all those nights, hours studying tactics, worrying about injuries, cajolling, persuading, begging, demanding, bullying and anything else it takes to get the best out of a group of young boys who might not realise for many a year just what they achieved and were part of in 2007.
The team that we were so lucky to see wear the Fianna jerseys yesterday were;
P. Donnelly, L. O'Neill, K. Corr, S. Hughes, S. Galvin (0-01), L. Wylie, S. McNally(1-0), P. Lyons, S. Curran, N. Fox, B. Toner (0-06 4frees), P. McNeice, E. Carberry (0-02), T. O'Hagan(0-02), D. Thornton (0-04).
Ah yes, another Cavan minor team snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
New Year, same old story by the sounds of it... :-\