TWELVE POINTS FROMÂ Stephen Clynch of Meath only began to tell the tale for Donegal in their Allianz League Division2B NHL loss against Meath in Trim.
Meath 2-35 Donegal 0-9
The 32-point loss for Ardal McDermott’s side undone their decent enough outings in the division ahead of Down’s visit this coming Sunday.
Clynch was back after a lengthy lay-off and gave his side a dozen good reasons why he was missed in action. Donegal had shown some promise is losses to Mayo and Armagh but yesterday’s reversal will hurt.
A goal on four minutes from Adam Gannon set the tone and at half-time Donegal were 1-19 to 0-4 down.
Sean McVeigh would end up with three points from play and Lee Henderson five in all but Donegal were well-beaten. Luke Martyn’s goal eight minutes from time merely put a cherry on top of the result for Meath.
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | F | A | POINTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KILDARE | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 52 | 6 |
| 2 | DOWN | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 45 | 4 |
| 3 | MEATH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 40 | 4 |
| 4 | ARMAGH | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 53 | 64 | 2 |
| 5 | MAYO | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 59 | 2 |
| 6 | DONEGAL | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 65 |
Meath:Â Shane McGann; Cormac Reilly, David Donoghue, Shane Whitty; Damian Healy (0-1), Ronan Sherlock, Keith Keoghan; Sean Heavey, Sean Geraghty (0-1); Stephen Clynch (0-12, 6f), Tom Clarke (0-6), Joey Keena (0-3); Stephen Morris (0-4), James Toher (0-4, 1f), Adam Gannon (1-3). Subs: Sean Quigley (0-1) for Toher (half-time), Shane Brennan for Heavey (47), Neil Heffernan for Whitty (51), Luke Martin (1-0) for Gannon (61), Eanna Harrington for Keena (62).
Donegal:Â Paul Burns; Shane Gallen, Pauric Doherty, Dara Grant ; Paul Sheridan, Joe Boyle, Niall Cleary; Stephen Gillespie, Jack O’Loughlin; Bernard Laverty, Ciaran Mathewson, Sean McVeigh (0-3); Sam Doherty (0-1), Paul Nelson, Lee Henderson (0-5, 4f, ’65’). Subs: Justin McGhee for Gillespie (19), Dylan Lafferty for Burns (44), Conor O’Grady for Cleary (50), Colm Flood for Doherty (62), Sean Curran for Sheridan (62).
Referee: Patrick Murphy (Carlow)
