Congratulations to Patrick Kelly who capped off a wonderful twelve months by adding a second Fitzgibbon Cup winners medal to the All-Ireland Under 21 championship medal he garnered last September. Kelly was one of NUIG's key performers in both the semi-final and final, both of which were titanic struggles that were only won by a single point after extra-time.

While Kelly was the hero in Saturday's semi-final against LIT by scoring the winning point, this time it was another Clareman John Conlon (Clonlara) who took that honour with a late winner against WIT in Pearse Stadium. That victory looked unlikely early in the second period of normal time when the hosts found themselves eight points behind but a Caimin Morey goal initiated the recovery and only secured a draw with an injury-time Seamus Hennessy (2008 Tipperary Under 21 captain) point to force extra-time.

Ironically, Patrick earned his first Fitzgibbon Cup medal whilst played for Saturday's opponents WIT in 2008. Well done from all at Clarecastle GAA.

Set as favorite

Bookmark

Email this

Comments (1)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

...

Well done pat

great win

mark , March 07, 2010

• 
• +0
• 
• 

Write comment

Name

Email

Comment

smaller | bigger

Subscribe via email (registered users only)

Add Comment