Antrim Hurling

[Minder]

Good luck to both. I saw St Galls are 11/4 with Paddy Power, do Ladbrokes have a price?

[Signum Fidei]

I'd like to echo those comments. Good luck St Gall's and Dunloy. i think both'll get hammered though.

Thats what alot of people though would happen when we played TAD Galway, just because its a kilkenny team we are written off 11/4 GET YOUR LOT ON IT.............

Dunloy you never know.....why not stranger things have happened.

Hope lady luck favours St Galls Dunloy NCC all the best. 

[Fairhead]

Best of luck to St Galls. If anybody hears the result would they put it up on here.

Good luck to Dunloy too. They certainly will be up against it.

[aontroim]

Result didnt go St. Gall's way tonight by the looks of things - St Lachtains Freshford 3-17 St Galls 0-10.

[Minder]

Hopefully Milltown will do the right thing.......

[Tony Baloney]

Hopefully Milltown will do the right thing.......

Get pissed?

[ONeill]

Milltown. This morning. Outside Aldo's.

[Minder]

Milltown. This morning. Outside Aldo's.

I would say he would he happy with 10% of that hair.

[Minder]

Portumna 2-18 Dunloy 0-12 FT

[Minder]

Hurlers beaten by Carlow by 2 pts at the weekend in the Walsh Shield.

[milltown row]

Antrim vs Carlow- Report for county website

CARLOW hurlers recovered from a dreadful start to overcome Antrim in this exciting tie at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow yesterday and set up a home final meeting with neighbours Laois.

The Saffrons raced into a 1-3 to no score lead after seven minutes, right half-forward Eddie McCloskey opening the scoring with a goal on three minutes.

Carlow slowly gained a foothold and in the 10th minute were boosted by a fine individual goal from centre-forward Eddie Byrne.

Carlow went 2-11 to 1-11 in front on 46 minutes and still held a three-point advantage when the Saffrons were awarded a 35-metre free in the dying stages. Liam Watson's effort rose over the bar and Carlow were through to the final.

These sides meet again in the opening round of the NHL on Sunday next when Antrim have home ground advantage.

Scorers -- Carlow: E Byrne 1-3, R Dunbar 1-1, C Hughes 0-3 (1f), A Gaule, R Coady (1f, 1 '65) 0-2 each, C Doyle, B Lawler and P Kehoe 0-1 each. Antrim: L Watson 0-7 (0-5f), S McCrory 0-4, E McCloskey 1-0, A Smiley 0-2, K McKeegan (1f), M Scullion 0-1 each.

Carlow -- K Kehoe; A Corcoran, J Rogers, D Shaw; J O'Hara, R Coady, P Doyle; D Roberts, J Hickey; R Dunbar, E Byrne, C Hughes; A Gaule, E Minchin, C Doyle. Subs: P Kehoe for Hickey (24), B Lawler for Minchin (h-t), E Nolan for P Doyle (h-t), E Kane for O'Hara (53), D Miley for K Kehoe (62), D Byrne for Rogers (65).

Antrim -- C O'Connell; S Shannon, N McGarry, R McDonnell; N McAuley, K McKeegan, C Herron; P McGill, M Scullion; E McCloskey, C McBride, A Smiley; S McCrory, L Watson, T McCann. Subs: A Graffin for McDonnell (46), C McFall for McCloskey (51), N McManus for McBride (68).

Ref -- J Kelly (Wexford)

From Independent

[maxpower]

Gutted, don't think a 12 point defeat does justice to the competitiveness of the game. Gave Portumna a fair rattle in the fifteen mins after half time we just needed a goal during this period of dominance and it really would have tested Portumna's resolve

[the colonel]

far from a first team there so wouldn't get to worried. imagine it will be a different team next weekend.

[theskull1]

Gutted, don't think a 12 point defeat does justice to the competitiveness of the game. Gave Portumna a fair rattle in the fifteen mins after half time we just needed a goal during this period of dominance and it really would have tested Portumna's resolve

Agreed Max

Though Portumna always posed that extra bit of awareness and had much more success gaining dirty ball possession whereas we snatched and missed on too many occasions in those areas. But we fought them all the way and this from a much changed side brimming with youth. I'm hoping that in this new era of players we can develop the big game composure and team play that portumna showed over time. For now I'm more than proud of our display yesterday.

[ha ha derry]

A good gutsy performance by the Dunloy defence, but the biggest problem was the forwards inability to win any of their own puck outs. I thought the keeper could have tried to place the ball more to giv e the forwards a fighting chance.
Joe Canning was outstanding but Mc Keigue had a great game too. Damien Hayes was well marked.
The biggest problem for Dunloy was the Ulster councils insistance on playing the final mid October. Too long a lay off.