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Shannon Olympic 0 – Castleisland 3 at Olympic Park, Shannon
SHANNON Olympic suffered a defeat at the hands of a strong Castleisland side, in the 1st round of the FAI Junior Cup at the weekend.
Played on Saturday afternoon, at the request of the visitors, Castleisland started the better and were ahead after 18 minutes when midfielder, James Hanafin, swivelled on a dropping ball in the Olympic box to volley a lovely goal into the bottom right hand corner of the goal.
The home side played a little better after conceding and were unlucky not to equalise in the 43rd minute when Ray Quigley shot over from 25yds.
Castleisland doubled their lead just 2 minutes into the second half when John McGaley had his free kick come off the upright to allow Aidan Callaghan to tap home from 5yds. It was a bitter goal to swallow as the tall front man seemed to be several yards offside when the free was taken.
Olympic bravely fought to get back into the game and on 57 minutes they managed to cut the margin when the ever impressive midfielder Ray Quigley saw his shot from 16yds find the goal off a Castleisland defender.
The home side continued to attack but were unable to find the equaliser, despite Castleislands influential midfielder Denis Collins being shown a straight red for a dangerous tackle on Olympic’s Sean O’Connor.
In the 88th minute all of Olympic’s hopes were dashed when a lovely free from Castleisland’s Sean Óg Kirwan curled in from the right wing and bounced teasingly in the Olympic 6 yard box for Vinny Murphy to tap home.
So it’s the Kerry side that advance to the next round, meeting Rathkeale of the Desmond league.
Shannon Olympic
Gary McGettrick, David Collins, Pa Fahy, Karl Fogarty, Ian Hogan, Ciaran Keane, Donncadh Kelly, Ray Quigley, John Ryan, Deaglan McDonald, Jason Regan.
Subs
Sean O’Connor, Kieran Lake, Eamonn O’Neill, Richie Hanly, John Keogh.
Castleisland
Kevin Moran, Donnacha Ryan, John McGaley, Shane Loughlin, Mike McCarthy, Paul Carmody, Sean Óg Kirwan, Mike Hanfin,Aidan Callaghan, Denis Collins, ColmMurphy.