Sun. Nov 17th, 2024
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Kilcoo won their sixth straight Down Football title and their 12th in the last 13 years with a 1-10 to 0-4 victory over Burren.

The Antrim SFC Final has gone to extra-time after Portglenone hit two injury-time points to level the Corrigan Park contest at 0-7 to 0-7.

The Down decider was anything but a classic but Kilcoo won’t mind as they built a first-half lead and kept Burren at arms’ length all afternoon.

Remarkably, the first score from play wasn’t kicked until the 29th minute of the game. In that time, there were six frees scored, one mark and four yellow cards dished out.

In the opening minutes it was a free-taking competition between Burren’s Donal O’Hare and Kilcoo’s Paul Devlin, with each player converting twice apiece.

However, little did Burren know that when O’Hare split the posts in the eighth minute that would be their next point wouldn’t come until the 52nd minute

From that moment on it was all Kilcoo in the opening half and they pushed their lead out to 0-7 to 0-2 at the break.

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