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The u21 hc finalists from late 2012 who lost to kiltale in the decider, front l/r: James andrews, sean McGee, ciaran o'rourke, Jamie lee, colm McGrath, ryan andrews, Darren Phelan, James Toher. Back: cian Downes, aaron winters, David Fox, Paul Melia, John cunningham, David Buckley, David Foley, shane Downes, Darren Melia, Damien McGee, shane lenihan, James Foley
by six at half-time. Immediately after the restart Mickey Lowther, who had just come on, had a goal attempt denied by the woodwork and soon after they got a goal to nine points clear. “Against Donaghmore/Ashbourne we were 10 points down before losing by seven. Losing that game meant that we could not qualify although the display in the last round against St Colmcille’s was probably our best. “We had Ronan Fitzsimons and Eoin McGrath back for that match and although the team hadn’t trained after losing to Donaghmore / Ashbourne, they performed very well. “Our league campaign was an absolute disaster. We struggled to get teams on the pitch for some of the games for, apart from the injury problems, players were unavailable for some games because of shift work. “Being manager of both the football and hurling teams has not been too difficult for me although the dual role takes up a lot of my time and I may have to give up one of them next year. The advantage of doing both is that you can juggle the dual players around with training “As regards the football team, I feel that they can be there or thereabouts again next year, especially if we haven’t as many problems with injuries. The players will feel that there is unfinished business to be done in 2014.”
It was not all doom and gloom for Trim’s football teams as the club’s under-14 side claimed outright honours in the Spring League Division 2 with a 4-9 to 3-8 victory over Dunshaughlin in an exciting final clash at Pairc Tailteann on a Monday evening in April. Trim got away to a flying start with a converted free by Aaron Lynch and a goal from Robbie Finnegan. After Dunshaughlin replied with a couple of goals, Finnegan netted his second and Lynch also raised the green flag. The sides were level (3-4 each) at the break and after the teams were evenly
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matched for most of the second half, a long ball from wing-back Cian Breathnach was finished to the net by Mark Murray before top scorer Lynch put the icing on the cake with the last point to bring his total to an impressive 1-7. Trim team and scorers: Sean Thornton; Cian Walsh, Pierse Darby, Patrick Dempsey; Cian Breathnach (01), Tom Doyle, Karl Keating; Cian Lee, Evan Buckley; Mark Murray (1-0), Gavin Griffith (0-1), Fearghal O’Keane; Aaron Lynch (1-7), Brian Dowling, Robbie Finnegan (2-0). Subs: Michael Mahon, Padraic Payne, Ben Gibney, Jonathan McEvoy, Patrick Dinan, Luke Mahon, Conor Hallinan, Tadhg Mulvey, Calum Pottinger, Conor Cook. The same team reached the final of the Under 14 FC Division 1 in which Ratoath defeated them by 5-8 to 3-3 at Skryne. Aaron Lynch scored 2-3 and Brian Dowling got Trim’s other goal. In May the Trim club hosted an intercounty senior football challenge in which Meath outscored Louth by 1-13 to 1-10 to mark the official opening of the impressive new facilities at St Loman’s Park. Work on the splendid clubhouse and top-class pitch cost over 6 million euro and Leinster chairman Martin Skelly described the facilities as “second to none.” County chairman Conor Tormey congratulated the Trim committee on turning a vision into reality.