St Mary's College RFC Yearbook 2020-21

Thus to the final against our traditional rivals,
Terenure who fielded a team that had
already won the Junior League for them a
few weeks previously, and which was
unbeaten in fact throughout the season.
In the first period of the match, Terenure
certainly justified their position as favourites
and by half-time we were fortunate enough
to be only eight-nil in arrears. They
commenced the second half, where they left
off before the interval, by continually
stretching our defence with clever attacking
football.
However, our lads stuck to their task quite
welI and no further scores were registered
against us. Then midway through the second
half our pack began to get on top and our
efforts were rewarded shortly afterwards
with a penalty goal from Ciaran O’Connell.
This score inspired us to even greater efforts
and some really stirring forward play from
then on saw us score a try by Johnny
Kinahan, which was converted by Ciaran
O'Connell, who then proceeded to make
victory ours when he kicked a penalty goal in
the dying minutes of a match, which for St.
Mary’s supporters was almost as thrilling in
the end as the memorable Senior Cup Final
win of the previous year.
Whilst eventually this was a team victory,
nevertheless skipper George Hook, and team
manager Vincent McGovern, must take great
credit for the tremendous amount of work
and effort they put in during the season to
ensure that the past provide at least one
more trophy for the College side-board in
I970.
Billy Fagan
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