Kilcar and St Eunan’s meet tonight in the Donegal Under-21 Football Championship final at Sean MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey. Chris McNulty is doing live updates:
FINAL SCORE Kilcar 0-13 St Eunan’s 1-08
63 mins: Oisin Carr has a shot at goal, but Cunningham saves.
59 mins: Conor Doherty’s first of the evening has three between them again. Kilcar 0-13 St Eunan’s 1-07
57 mins: Matthew McClean clips over a point to steady the wobbles. Kilcar 0-12 St Eunan’s 1-07
51 mins: Just a point in it now as Odhrán McGinley fires over.
50 mins: GOAL by St Eunan’s full-back Darragh McWalters after a one-two with Niall O’Donnell and it’s a two-point game. Kilcar 0-11 St Eunan’s 1-06
48 mins:Â Kevin Kealy replaces Sean Hume on the St Eunan’s team.
47 mins: McGinley kicks the score of the game and makes it a five-point game. Kilcar 0-11 St Eunan’s 0-06
46 mins: Kilcar let a seven-point lead slip away in the 2014 final so the Towney supporters certainly won’t be counting chickens before the hatching of eggs here.
45 mins: McGinley sticks over another free, his fourth, and Kilcar are looking more likely. Kilcar 0-10 St Eunan’s 0-06
41 mins: 45-metre free from Hume reduces the margin. Kilcar 0-09 St Eunan’s 0-06
40 mins: Eoin McHugh gets a yellow card for a foul on Barry McGeehin. Kilcar still lead by four.
38 mins: Conor Morrison is booked for a foul on Ryan McHugh. Fortunate as Mark Dorrian could have shown black there.
35 mins: Kilcar have started like a house on fire this half and Eoin McHugh brilliantly puts four between them. Kilcar 0-09 St Eunan’s 0-05
32 mins: Stephen McBrearty scores a free, but St Eunan’s ‘keeper Matthew Gallagher will feel as if he should have held it.Kilcar 0-08 St Eunan’s 0-05
31 mins: The second half is underway and there are no further changes by either team.
Half-time:Â Kilcar 0-07 St Eunan’s 0-05
30 mins: David Tyrell has a shot saved by Michael Cunningham after being played in by a superb pass from Hume. Tyrell almost made an instant impact, but a brilliant saves keeps him at bay. Kilcar 0-07 St Eunan’s 0-05
29 mins: David Tyrell comes on to replace Jordan O’Dowd on the St Eunan’s team. Kilcar 0-07 St Eunan’s 0-05
28 mins: Darragh Mulgrew worms away and fires over a close-range point. Kilcar 0-07 St Eunan’s 0-05
27 mins: Matthew McClean delightfully curls over after a fine piece of play by McBrearty. Kilcar 0-07 St Eunan’s 0-04
26 mins: It’s end-to-end stuff alright as Eoin McHugh bursts in for another Kilcar score. Kilcar 0-06 St Eunan’s 0-04
25 mins: Niall O’Donnell turns on the after burners to leave the Kilcar defence for dead. Just when a goal seemed on, O’Donnell drives over the bar. Kilcar 0-05 St Eunan’s 0-04
24 mins: Beauty by Stephen McBrearty, from slightly to the right of centre, makes it a two-point game now. Kilcar 0-05 St Eunan’s 0-03
21 mins: McGinley has Kilcar back in front with a 35-metre free, Kilcar 0-04 St Eunan’s 0-03
19 mins: All aboard once more as McGinley slots over a free to draw Kilcar level. Kilcar 0-03 St Eunan’s 0-03
16 mins: Oisin Carr puts St Eunan’s in front as he gets a fist to a Hume free that was trailing wide. Carr’s point has his team in front for the first time. Kilcar 0-02 St Eunan’s 0-03
15 mins: Midway through the opening stanza at a freezing MacCumhaill Park and there is, literally, nothing between the teams. Kilcar 0-02 St Eunan’s 0-02
13 mins: The lead, again, is short lived as Niall O’Donnell taps over after a Hume free is batted outward. Kilcar 0-02 St Eunan’s 0-02
11 mins: Aodhán McGinley curls over a free from the stand side after Ryan McHugh draws the foul. Kilcar 0-02 St Eunan’s 0-01
6 mins: Sean Hume, from a free awarded after a Kilcar defender is, harshly it has to be said, deemed to have over-carried, levels the game. Kilcar 0-01 St Eunan’s 0-01
2 mins: Stephen McBrearty slots over a free won by Eoin McHugh and Kilcar draw first blood. Kilcar 0-01 St Eunan’s 0-00
0 mins: Mark Dorrian, the referee, has just got us underway. Kilcar 0-00 St Eunan’s 0-00
Kilcar have won this competition five times in the past, while St Eunan’s have collected the silverware six times at under-21 level previously
St Eunan’s are without Rory Carr, who sustained a shoulder injury while playing for the St Eunan’s minors in the Ulster Club Minor Tournament against Enniskillen Gaels.
Sean Hume – who was the hero of the hour in the 2014 final with a late goal against Kilcar – starts, as does Darragh Mulgrew, who had been named as a substitute.
Kilcar: Michael Cunningham; Eoin O’Donnell, Daniel Lyons, James Shovlin; Cormac Cannon, Ryan McHugh, Jordan Mooney; Aodhán McGinley, Stephen McBrearty; Andrew McClean, Matthew McClean, Conor Doherty; Chris Doogan, Jason Campbell, Eoin McHugh.
St Eunan’s: Matthew Gallagher; Connall O’Boyle, Darragh McWalters, Conor Parke; Barry McGeehin, Conor O’Donnell, Daire McMonagle; Oisin Carr, Conor Morrison; Odhrán McGinley, Michael Miller, Jordan O’Dowd; Niall O’Donnell, Sean Hume, Darragh Mulgrew.
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