{"id":104599,"date":"2025-10-26T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T06:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T06:51:08","slug":"nemo-defeat-mayfield-in-five-goal-thriller-to-secure-seandun-junior-a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104599\/","title":{"rendered":"Nemo defeat Mayfield in five-goal thriller to secure Seand\u00fan Junior A title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Nemo Rangers 3-15 (3-2-11) Mayfield 2-11 (2-0-11)\n <\/p>\n

It was a case of third time lucky for Nemo Rangers as they defeated Mayfield to claim the AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football title, before a sizable attendance at Ballinlough.<\/p>\n

The Trabeg side have also avenged their 2023 final defeat by Mayfield as they bridged an 18-year gap and now face Duhallow champions Castlemagner in the County Championship.<\/p>\n

\" Nemo Rangers celebrate their win over Mayfield at Ballinlough.\u00a0Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

Wayward shooting was proving to be costly for both sides in the opening exchanges of a game, which produced an evenly contested first half. In the second half, the Trabeg side put the game beyond Mayfield\u2019s reach as they landed two scores from outside the Mayfield 40-metre arc, in addition to their third goal.<\/p>\n

Nemo Rangers broke the deadlock in the eighth minute when Dave Callanan set up Dara O\u2019Sullivan for the game’s opening goal. This was followed by a point from Gavin Barrett. Mayfield opened their account in the 11th minute as Dilan O\u2019Donovan set up Dave O\u2019Neill for a goal. This was immediately cancelled out as P\u00e1draig O\u2019Dwyer set up Barrett for the Trabeg side\u2019s second goal. This left Nemo Rangers leading 2-1 to 1-0.<\/p>\n

Mayfield responded with points from play by O\u2019Neill, MJ Coffey and Dilan O\u2019Donovan to leave the minimum between the sides.<\/p>\n

\" Padraig O’Dwyer, Nemo Rangers, and Eoin O’Sullivan, Mayfield, battle for the high ball. Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

Nemo Rangers\u2019 Aaron Browne exchanged points with Shane O\u2019Donovan. This was followed by further points for the Trabeg side by Browne and Matthew Keenan, before O\u2019Neill replied for Mayfield.<\/p>\n

Mayfield were awarded a penalty, which Dean Grainger converted on the stroke of half-time. This left the scoreline reading 2-5 to 2-4 in favour of Mayfield.<\/p>\n

Dilan O\u2019Donovan converted a free for Mayfield within a minute of the restart, before the Trabeg side took a grip on proceedings.<\/p>\n

Dara O\u2019Sullivan tagged on a point from play. This was followed by Nemo Rangers\u2019 third goal by Keenan, as he capitalised on a defensive error by Mayfield.<\/p>\n

Mayfield had the Trabeg side pinned back and they regained the lead as Joey Gibson and Grainger each added points from play. Gibson and Dilan O\u2019Donovan also converted a free each to give their side a one-point lead.<\/p>\n

Nemo’s third team seized the initiative entering the final quarter as super sub Ross Corkery landed two two-pointers, before the final whistle was greeted with jubilant scenes by the Trabeg side\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Nemo Rangers: D O\u2019Sullivan 1-3; R Corkery 0-5 (2 2pt); M Keenan, G Barrett 1-1 each; J Lyons 0-2f; A Browne 0-2; S Nagle 0-1.<\/p>\n

\n Mayfield: D O\u2019Neill 1-2; D Grainger 1-1 (1-0 pen); D O\u2019Donovan 0-4 (0-2f); J Gibson 0-2 (0-1f); C Moynihan, S O\u2019Donovan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n NEMO: F Dietze; S O\u2019Dwyer; I Nolan, A McGowan; C Kavanagh; J O\u2019Brien, E Dilloughrey; D Callanan, M Keenan; B Twohig, G Barrett, P O\u2019Dwyer; D O\u2019Sullivan, A Browne, J Lyons.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: S Nagle for P O\u2019Dwyer (38), A O\u2019Reilly for Kavanagh, R Corkery for Twohig (both 44), D Egan for Callanan, D Kelly for Browne (both 60+).<\/p>\n

\n MAYFIELD: E Cusack; L Malone, B O\u2019Leary, C Moynihan; D O\u2019Neill, J Courtney, MJ Coffey; E O\u2019Sullivan, S O\u2019Donovan; N Kelly, J Gibson, E Scanlon; R O\u2019Keeffe, D Grainger, D O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: L Foley for Moynihan (h\/t), D Malone for Scanlon (52), C O\u2019Donovan for Grainger (55), C Bond for Kelly (57, inj).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: Cormac Dineen (Douglas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nemo Rangers 3-15 (3-2-11) Mayfield 2-11 (2-0-11) It was a case of third time lucky for Nemo Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-104599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}