New York Feile Boys vs Kilrea 7/3/2010

First half display enough for NY against the Pearses.


New York feile boys recorded an impressive 4-06 to no score victory over the Kilrea Pearses in Limavady. New York cruised through the second half following a virtuoso performance from the New York offence. New York opened the scoring in the 3rd minute following a great catch by Michael Murphy who fed the ball inside to match day MVP Ronan Currie who made no mistake from the edge of the square right into the Kilrea net. Currie added his second, moments after, with a top corner effort from 15 yards before Joe Mc Cormack scored a great point after fielding a kick out from the Kilrea goalie. The play of the game was the next score from New York as Pete Rogers took a great catch round the middle of the field over the heads of the entire Kilrea midfield, found Currie with a direct ball who flicked on for Kieran Bennett to finish into the top corner which earned applause from all members of the crowd including the large Kilrea following. Joe Mc Cormack scored again following some real wizardry by Kieran Bennett in the bottom corner of the field, Bennett then managed to find Mc Cormack with an inside ball who duly pointed. James Lenanne then got his name on the scoreboard with a nice point from 30 yards. Mc Cormack then beat several tacklers and found the on fire Currie who raised a white flag with an effort from 20 yards. Just at the interval Joe Mc put a free over from a tricky angle to leave the half time scores New York 4-06 to Kilrea 0-00.

Kilrea selector Terence Mc Williams later revealed that there were stern words at half time from the management and this resulted in a different attitude from the Kilrea boys in the second half who kept the NY boys to one score in the second half due in most part to inspirational leadership of Kilrea centre back, Rory O’Connell. NY were firmly in control of the ball in the second half but found it hard to put scores on the board with their solitary score coming from Hat Trick Hero Ronan Currie who blasted the ball into the Kilrea net following another great catch by Murphy. Speaking after the game Currie praised the efforts of his team mates and was delighted with his own personal tally of 3-01.”We were well pumped for the game and that led to today’s performance , we’re looking forward to our next game and we hoping to come home with the Championship.” After the game former GAA president Joe Mc Donagh praised the Kilrea Pearses for their second half performance and gave credit to the management and players of the New York squad as a testament to the hard work been done for the GAA overseas.