Glory for Nenagh and Templemore teams in All Ireland Finals

A total of 142 competitors overall represented Tipperary in individual events and Munster in team events on weekend two of the Aldi Community Games National Finals which took place in University of Limerick last weekend.

The county held their own among the cream of the crop winning gold in seven events, silver in five, bronze in four and pewter in four events.

Cream of the crop were the Nenagh Under 11 Hurling team who won the All Ireland Final.

Three teams were competing on a round robin basis with each team playing against each other. Nenagh’s first game was against Dicksboro from Kilkenny who had already beaten Clarinbridge in their first game. This match was a cracker but Nenagh were always chasing the game. Halftime score was 2-3 to 0-6 in favour of Dicksboro. Nenagh had it all to do playing against a very strong breeze and twice fell behind by five points. However the boys really got going in the last ten minutes and were level with three minutes to play. A point by Michael Ryan put us ahead and the boys held out for a memorable win 2-9 to 2-8.

The second match against Clarinbridge and a win here would secure the All Ireland title. Nenagh got off to a great start scoring a goal but was quickly cancelled out by a swift goal by Clarinbridge, halftime score 1-5 to 1-3 to Nenagh. Early in the second half Nenagh took complete control of this match as they scored three goals in the space of two minutes and from here they never looked back. A further two goals later on sealed the win and when the final whistle sounded Nenagh were All Ireland Community Games champions on a scoreline of 6-6 to 2-6.

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