Junior 'B' Football Championship: Mullingar Shamrocks 3-12 Kilbeggan Shamrocks 3-11.

For the duration of the first half this match shaped like one of those games where the team and score would be more than sufficient to report as the Mullingar Shamrocks feeble efforts offered no resistance to the Kilbeggan challenge. Nothing positive to report here. Kilbeggan could do no wrong, played great football and accurately converted the majority of chances created and at half-time led by 2-10 to 1-4 after leading by 1-6 to 0-0 after eighteen minutes as the Mullingar Shamrocks defence was shredded. Even the famous Lady Luck was wearing the Kilbeggan colours as the opening goal was a classic own goal as the ball smashed off the crossbar and hit the diving Killian White on the head and rebounded into the net. A good Shane Colleary goal took the bad look off the first half scoreboard. Trevor Keena scored two points; Peter Collins and Gary Corroon also pointed. All changed utterly in the second half and although a terrible beauty might not have been born, Mullingar Shamrocks were a transformed team. Pádraic McKenna began the revival with a good point before Shane Colleary powered through for his second goal of the evening. Gary Corroon and Trevor Keena scored two points each, Marc Eivers took leave of absence from his centre-back post to blast the ball to the net for Mullingar Shamrocks third goal. During this scoring blitz Kilbeggan added just a single point. After fifteen minutes, the halftime lead was wiped out and Mullingar Shamrocks were a point ahead (3-10 to 2-11). Gary Corroon and a spectacular Adam McCormack long range point extended the lead to three points with less than five minutes remaining. There was a dying kick in Kilbeggan and it came in the form of a punched goal from Alan Fennell who buried a Kilbeggan free that floated into the Mullingar Shamrocks goalmouth. The sides were level but the final score belonged to the home team; a point largely created by Pádraic McKenna and finished by the ageless Gary Corroon. A great win for Mullingar Shamrocks inspired by the veteran Shane Colleary with great displays by the young players Marc Eivers, Dillon Matthews, Jack Kelly, the steadfast Brian Reidy, the high fielding Adam McCormack, the speedy Trevor Keena and the unorthodox Pádraic McKenna. And overseeing the lot was Gary Corroon whose winning point was one of five he scored on the night. May you stay forever young, Gary.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Killian White; Cormac Murphy, Brian Reidy, Conor McEntee; Jack Kelly, Marc Eivers (1-0), Stephen Hassett (Brian Maguire); Dillon Matthews, Adam McCormack (0-1); Pearse Corroon, Shane Colleary (2-0), Peter Collins (0-1) [Gary Walsh]; Pádraic McKenna (0-1), Gary Corroon (0-5), Trevor Keena (0-5).