Limerick District League Review

By Pat Sheehan

Premier Division

Nenagh AFC 1-1 Mungret Regional

Nenagh AFC were in action on Bank Holiday Monday when they shared the spoils with Mungret Regional in Brickfields.

Matt O’Gorman went closest to opening the scoring in the first half, forcing a good save from Dan Doyle in the Mungret goal.

Scoreless at the break, the keeper was called into action again after the restart making a brilliant save to keep out a rocket-like shot from Dan Connolly.

When it looked like we were heading for a scoreless draw, Aron Long put the visitors in front with seven minutes remaining.

Nenagh were not done, however, and in the third minute of injury time, a superb cross by Lee Mowat picked out Ciaran O’Reilly whose header forced another top class save from Doyle, but on this occasion, he was undone when the rebound fell to Brian Tracey to knock in the equaliser.

Nenagh AFC: Mark McKenna, Colm Hayden, Mark Manley, Ciaran O'Reilly, Kieran Barr, Pa Steed, Daniel Connolly, Dylan Morrison, Matt O'Gorman, Adam Brennan, Aaron Cusack. Subs: Lee Mowatt, Brian Tracey

Lower Leagues

In the Premier ‘A’ League, Newport Town suffered another defeat, going down 5-3 at Summerville Rovers last Thursday. Brian O'Sullivan scored twice for the visitors with Christy Doyle also finding the net.

Newport bounced ball on Bank Holiday Monday in recording a welcome 5-1 win away to relegation threatened Caherdavin Celtic.

Christy Doyle was back to his best with a superb hat-trick while Jamie Kavanagh and Brian O'Sullivan also netted for the winners with the latter also chipping in with three assists.

The Division 1B League race came to a dramatic end on Saturday evening when Nenagh AFC ‘B’ scored a 95th minute equaliser against Pike Rovers ‘B’ to hand the title to Ballynanty Rovers ‘B’.

At the start of the week, Pike trailed Balla by two points but had two games remaining compared to one for Rovers.

Pike hosted Newport Town ‘B’ on Tuesday evening, and despite Nathan Hartigan giving the visitors an early lead, Pike ran out 3-1 winners to carry a one-point advantage before the season’s finale.

Pike’s final game was away to Nenagh AFC ‘B’ and things seemed to be going to plan Logan O’Byrne put them ahead.

Meanwhile Balla’s game with Glenview was blown up at 6-1 and the Blues gathered around their mobiles following the end of the Nenagh-Pike game.

With five minutes injury time played, Diarmuid Fitzpatrick struck a dramatic equaliser to give Nenagh a share of the points and hand the title to Balla.

Lough Derg kicked off the Open Cup with a win. They needed penalties to see off Mungret Regional ‘C’ after a 1-1 draw.

In the Under 17 League Division 1, Conor Bailey, W Meehan and J Ryan scored for Newport who went down 6-3 to Pike Rovers earlier in the week and on Saturday a goal from S Murphy gave the Tipperary side a share of the spoils with league leaders Charleville.

Also, on Saturday, Pike lost the chance to close the gap at the top when they fell 3-1 to Lough Derg. Goals from G O’Shaughnessy 2 and A Lawlor-Joyce gave Derg the points.