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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22 2020
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Kilcoo hopes dashed after rivals up ante
PAUL AINSWORTH
H
OPES were dashed in Co
Down yesterday as Kilcoo
GAC failed to prevent Galway side Corofin from lifting the
All-Ireland Senior Club Football
trophy for a historic third year in
a row.
Hundreds of Kilcoo fans cheered
on their beloved side, nicknamed
The Magpies, as they led their
opponents to a 0-7 to 0-7 draw at
yesterday’s AIB Championship final and forced the match into extra-time.
However, Kilcoo’s dreams of
hoisting the Andy Merrigan Cup
for the first time in the club’s
113-year history fell apart when
BATTLE: Kilcoo’s Aaron Branagan
Corofin upped the ante in the addtakes on Corofin’s Ian Burke
ed minutes, with a goal by Conor
PICTURES: Seamus Loughran Cunningham proving to be the
nail in the coffin for the Co Down
side.
The final whistle was blown and
an extra-time scoreboard showed
1-12 to 0-7.
Following the loss, a Kilcoo GAC
spokesman described the team’s
rivals as “superb”, and congratulated them on their historic win,
adding: “Hard luck to our warriors, you battled gamely and it just
wasn’t to be in extra time. We are
so proud of you all.”
The club and their fans’ heartbreak was heightened due to Kilcoo leading the scoring at halftime, 0-3 to 0-2.
The side had prevented Corofin
from scoring for the first 25 minutes of the game, which dampened
the Galway mens’ spirits considering it took just 33 seconds to score
in their semi-final clash against
Exhibition
on first Dáil
to finish in
founder’s
home city
SEAMUS McKINNEY
derry@irishnews.com
A
YEAR-LONG
travelling
exhibition to mark the centenary of the first Dáil will
this week travel to Derry
– the home of one of the Republic’s
founding fathers Joseph O’Doherty.
From the city’s Little Diamond,
O’Doherty played a role in all the
major events leading to the formation of the Irish Free State and later
the Republic.
Derry is the final location to host
‘Dáil 100’, after Dublin, Galway, Cork
and Belfast, and it will open in the
Minor Hall of Ulster University’s
Magee campus today, running until
Sunday.
The exhibition outlines the ways in
which the Dáil’s work has changed
and developed in the last century.
The first Dáil , which sat at Dublin’s Mansion House on January 21
1919, was established following Sinn
Féin’s landslide victory in the 1918
election.
In that election O’Doherty, a qualified teacher, stood successfully as
Sinn Féin candidate for North Donegal, taking his place in the first Dáil.
FOUNDING
MEMBER:
Joseph
O’Doherty
was elected to
the first Dáil
in 1919 as TD
for Donegal
North
Ironically the party’s successful Derry candidate was Eoin Mac
Neill, below, the man who thwarted O’Doherty’s efforts to have his
home city rise for the Easter
rebellion.
After joining the Irish
Volunteers in 1913 and
subsequently the Irish
Republican Brotherhood,
O’Doherty moved to Dublin where he played an active part in planning for the
1916 Rising.
He was sent to lead the rising in
Derry by Seán Mac Diarmada, who
was himself later executed.
However, Derry’s failure to rise
was due in large part to Mac Neill’s
orders countermanding Irish Volunteer mobilisation which were published in the Sunday Independent on
Easter Sunday 1916.
O’Doherty was arrested after the
Rising and imprisoned.
But as the fragile new state took
shape he later went on to play a full
role.
He was re-elected to the second
Dáil and again in 1923.
As an anti-Treaty republican he
was a close ally of Éamon de Valera
and helped the future president
found Fianna Fáil in 1926.
On his death in 1979, O’Doherty became the third-last surviving member of the first Dáil.
Dáil 100 will be opened today by
Irish joint secretary Kevin Conmy and Ulster University provost
Malachy O’Neill and will be addressed by historians Dr Éamon
Phoenix and Adrian Grant.
TRIBUTE:
Above,
The first
Dáil sat in
Dublin’s
Mansion
House on
January
21 1919.
Right, Dáil
100 opens
at Ulster
University’s
Magee
campus
today and
runs until
Nemo Rangers.
However, things went downhill
in extra-time, with Kilcoo losing
Daryl Brannigan to a red card decision before Cunningham’s goal
sealed the Galway side’s third victory in as many years.
Despite the loss, fans praised
Kilcoo’s performance and achievement of reaching the final.
Among them was Aileen Marie
Devlin, who tweeted: “A huge congratulations to the players and
management of Kilcoo; you gave
so many families an unforgettable
day out – I’ll remember celebrating that full time score with my
Daddy the rest of my life – Cill
Chua Abú!”
SPORT P61 to back
THREE IN A ROW: Corofin players celebrate
at the final whistle in yesterday’s club
championship final clash