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Intermediate semi finalists, front l/r: Kevin Reid, Brian Clarke, Sean Whelehan, Stephen Riggs, Shane Gleeson, David Devine, Shane Corcoran, Fintan O'Reilly (Capt), Andrew Devine, Paul Brady, Seamus Faulkner, Darragh O'Connor Gary Nolan, Colm Grennan, James Grennan. Back: Adam Moore, Mark Gorman, Kevin Kelly, Shane Donoghue, Shane Gammell, Andrew Mullin, Liam O'Reilly, Noel O'Reilly, Dermot Faulkner, Gary Brady, Paul O'Reilly, Shane Flanagan, Ciaran Wright, Justin McDonald, Conor Flanagan, John O'Reilly, TJ Glennon, Jack Gorman
the main aim was to gain promotion from division 3. “Jim has been brilliant for the club and he did a great job in 2012, but as I said we had no luck in some of the games. Our chairman Sean Moran should take the credit for getting Gerry in. For some reason, Rhode decided to change manager, even though he had won the championship with them the year before and their loss was our gain. “We knew that we had to get out of division 3, with all due respect to the teams that are there, we needed to be playing at a higher level. Our first game of the league was against Ballynacargy, who have got the better of us comfortably in recent years. We went five or six points down early in that match and it looked as if it was going to be a case of the same old story, but we battled back and won that game by a
few points and I think it was then that lads started to believe that we could achieve something.” The confidence continued into the championship and an opening round victory over Rosemount on a scoreline of 1-09 to 0-08 was no more than Milltownpass deserved. This was the perfect start to the campaign, according to Ciaran. “I think Rosemount took us for granted a bit and it was a great result for us. It’s very important to start the campaign with a win and that’s the way it proved for them as they failed to make it out of the group, even though they would have been many people’s favourites to win the title.” However, Milltown suffered a surprise 1-10 to 1-08 defeat to Tang in their next outing meaning that there was a great deal of importance in winning against St
Mary’s Rochfortbridge in round three. They managed a victory as they won by 1-12 to 0-8. It was a big result for the club as they now had four points on the board. A narrow 0-10 to 1-06 win over Ballinagore ensured that Milltownpass were guaranteed a place in the knockout stages, even though they still had one game to play in the group and this turned out to be a cracking match against Caulry with Hickey’s charges just shading it by 1-08 to 0-10 on this occasion. “Winning the last two group games the way we did gave us great confidence, as the previous year we were losing those games. We headed into the semi final confident that we could beat St Malachy’s.” Milltownpass played in to a strong wind and blinding sun in the first half. At the
The Division Three Cup winners, front l/r: Frank Moran, Sam Maguire, TJ Glennon, Stephen Riggs, Darragh O'Connor, Andrew Devine, Fintan O'Reilly, Shane Gammell, Noel O'Reilly, Sean Moran, Jim O'Connor. Middle: Richard Gorman, Jay Faulkner, Paul Brady, Gerry Hickey, Ciaran Wright, John O'Reilly, Shane Flanagan, Kevin Kelly, Dermot Faulkner, Ned O'Reilly, Liam O'Reilly, Andy Mullin, Ruairi Coyne, Joe Loran. Back: David Gavigan, Brian Early, Adam Moore, Shane Corcoran, Gary Brady, Paul O'Reilly, Gary Nolan, Jack Gorman, Seamus Faulkner, Mark Gorman, Justin McDonald, Owen Loran, Jack O'Connor.
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