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Minor football league Division 1 champions, front l/r: Lorcan Nolan, Cian Wall, Cian O'Rourke, Shaun Byrne, Dara McGovern, Jack McCarney, Connor Donnelly, Dylan Brady, Daire Kelly, Connor Heffernan. Back: Niall Kavanagh, Jack O'Connor, Anthony McElarney, Michael Deegan, Jack Giles, Connor Dwyer, Thomas McGovern, Cian Field, Jamie Murtagh, Aidan O'Connor, Kevin Fenton, Stephen Breslin, Ryan Bannon, Liam Finn
On the league front the second team had a comfortable campaign and were looking to record their third consecutive league title in a row. The side opening their campaign with a 3-18 to 0-11 home win over Dunshaughlin in early March. Although we had no fixtures for April the month of May was a busy time in terms of games with four matches in as many weeks. Our first away game of the year was in Kilberry when the lads recorded another high scoring victory winning by 318 to 1-02. Our only defeat of the league was at home to St. Peter’s Dunboyne in round 3 when we were beaten by 1-10 to 1-06. The winning form returned in round four with a 2-09 to 1-04 win away to Seneschalstown and by the end of the month the team were sitting pretty at the top of the table following a 3-10 to 1-05 home win over Walterstown. Two trips to Navan in June and July saw away wins over Simonstown with a 3-14 to 0-04 winning margin and O’Mahony’s on a 007 to 2-12 margin. The team were awarded a walkover by neighbours Ratoath and a final group game at home to Skryne at the end of August saw the team record another high scoring 3-18 to 2-08 win to confirm a place in the final. The side has to wait until the end of September for the final against the St. Peter’s, the only side they lost to throughout the campaign. Although going for a third league title in a row our lads were well beaten on a score line of 1-11 to 0-04. Our Junior B team were drawn in the same group as Nobber, Wolfe Tones, St Vincent’s and Boardsmill. Although we recorded an opening round victory over Nobber in Kilberry on a score line of 2-09 to 0-10 we were forced to replay the
game a couple of weeks later as the Nobber side objected to the result. Donaghmore Ashbourne could have appealed the objection as we felt we did not breach any rules but it is not the clubs nature to engage in appeals and such goings on and we agreed to replay the game. To compound the situation the game was fixed in Donore with only 24 hours notification given by the county board fixtures committee. In the replayed game both sides were different that the initial game with Donaghmore Ashbourne weakened by a number of playing not being available due to the short notice and Nobber considerably stronger on the personnel front. On saying that
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