Kilmeena V Kiltimagh Senior Ladies Adult RD2 2025-06-29

Kilmeena 2 – 10, Kiltimagh 4 - 09

Kilmeena hosted Kiltimagh on Sunday 29th June for Round Two of the Adult League.

In near perfect weather conditions, there was little to separate these sides on the

scoreboard at the end of the first 30 minutes of football. Kilmeena won the lion’s share

of possession from both their own and the opposition’s restarts and in truth the home

side ought to have carried a bigger lead into the break.

That said, a very competitive and entertaining first half of football left the contest finely

balanced for the 2nd half – it was either sides to win or lose.

Kilmeena’s Lisa Hastings scored the only goal of the 1st half to leave it, Kilmeena 1 - 05, Kiltimagh 0 – 7 at the short whistle.

Kiltimagh seized the initiative right from the 2nd half throw-in – they gathered possession,

ran at the Kilmeena defence and in the blink-of-an-eye, the ball was in the Kilmeena net.

Kilmeena were rattled, Kiltimagh were emboldened. Kiltimagh pushed up on the

Kilmeena restarts and it paid dividends – the visitors scored another 1 – 01. But, the

Kilmeena ladies steadied themselves and pulled a couple of points back. Kiltimagh

were not done yet and they plundered another goal. Then Kilmeena were awarded a

penalty and this was perfectly dispatched by Sinead Hughes. The home side added

another point to narrow the gap to 3 points. However, the visitors had the last say,

scoring their 4th goal of the 2nd half.

Goals win games and Kiltimagh proved that today!

Whilst this was a disappointing result for the Kilmeena ladies, there are learnings and

lots of positives to take from this contest too. Onwards and upwards………

Team; Ellie Mae Keane, Mags Ryder, Laura O'Grady, Sarah Mulchrone, Eva Mulchrone,

Aine Gallagher, Sinead Hughes, Siofra Hughes, Eabha Carney, Amy Carney, Lisa

Hastings, Sheila Bohan, Rachel Gibbons, Ciara Joyce, Lucy O’Malley.

Subs; Laura Ingham for Eva Mulchrone, Katie Moran (Jnr) for Rachel Gibbons, Aine

Regan for Aine Gallagher, Katie Moran (Snr) for Mags Ryder, Emma Murray for Lucy

O’Malley. Emma Jane Gill for Laura Ingham, Julie O’Grady.

Scorers; Eabha Carney 0 - 1, Lisa Hastings 1 - 01, Amy Carney 0 – 3, Siofra Hughes 0 – 2,

Ciara Joyce 0 – 3 (2f), Sinead Hughes 1 – 0 (Pen

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