NYPD Gaelic Football Club
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FINEST FEND OFF SUNDAY SWEEP,
WIN MOIRA SMITH PERPETUAL CUP
The NYPD Gaelic Football Club gave New Yorkers something to cheer about at Gaelic Park on Sunday afternoon, turning the day-long tide of Exile defeats and beating Dublin CIE. The Finest grabbed the Moira Smith Perpetual Cup, winning their second match in as many weeks.
Here is what the local papers had to say of the match:
From the Irish Emigrant:
Police Department Gets
Revenge for Firemen
NYPD 1-11 CIE 0-8
The last game of the day was the NYPD playing another selection from the CIE traveling team. This time it was the PD who won the game and thereby getting some measure of revenge for their brother firemen.
NY made a great start to the game with a point from Robbie Moran that he quickly followed with a goal after good work by Aiden Power and John Walsh. CIE's opening score was a point that Dave Byrne scored after a good run. New York continued to control the tempo of the game and were a bit unlucky to see a four man move that worked the ball the length of the field get parried away for a fifty. They had a similar chance two minutes later but a CIE defender got back in time to stop a certain goal. Dave McCarthy had a second CIE point, but over the next ten minutes, they missed some close in frees to tie the game.
Kevin Dooley cut the lead to two points when he joined the attack to fire one over. Two points from McCarthy did level the game as we entered the final few minutes of the first half. New York had another goal chance when sub Brendan Heapes climbed high to catch and fire at the net, but the CIE keeper was alert to the danger and again parried away to safety.
New York again took command in the last few minutes and lead by Kevin McGeeney who fired over two good points to bring the first half to a close with a three point advantage of a goal and four, to four points.
The contest continued to be very keen as the second half got underway. Both sides has an early point before Robbie Moran pushed NY's lead to five points. CIE answered again, this time Dave Donoghue was on hand to send over a fine point. Moran was again in the right place to push New York's lead to five. It should have been more two minutes later when New York looked to have goaled, but as he was doing all match long, CIE goalkeeper Peter Curran pulled off a brilliant save.
James Mitchell joined the New York attack to score a point before Dennis McCarthy replied for the visitors to make it 1-8 to 8 points in New York's favor.
That was as close as the visitors would get. New York finished with a flourish and three unanswered points from John Walsh, Aiden Power, and man of the match Robbie Moran sealed the deal for New York.
NYPD 1 PJ Doherty 2 Paul Dillon 3 Tom O'Riordan 4 Andrew Donoghue 5 Aiden Traynor 6 James Mitchell (0-1) 7 Aiden Power 8 John Walsh (0-1) 9 Dan O'Sullivan 10 Dan McNulty (0-1) 11 Robbie Moran (1-5) 12 Kevin McGeeney (0-2) 13 Tom McGovern 14 John O'Connell 15 Jim McGovern. SUBS Pat Donoghue, Brendan Heapes, Chris Lambe, Pete Jarvis, Dermott O'Sullivan, Mike Greeney, Billy Green, Kevin Moran
CIE 1 Kevin Leonard 2 Donal Brosnan 3 Morgan O'Sullivan 4 Martin O'Donnell 5 Kevin Doolan (0-2) 6 John Synott 7 Eamon Towney 8 Damian McCarthy (0-8) 9 Dave Dineen 10 Carl Coates (0-1) 11 Darren Finlay 12 Dave Byrne (0-1) 13 Darren King 14 Paddy Kavanagh 15 Mark Cassidy. SUBS Dave Donoghue, Aiden Larkin, Damian Donovan.
Referee: Ciaran McShane (Donegal)
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Finest Take Honors against Visitors
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From the Irish Voice:
KEEPING THE HERITAGE ALIVE