{"id":346578,"date":"2026-03-14T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:16:11","slug":"heartbroken-nathys-fall-to-all-ireland-final-loss-against-cnoc-mhuire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/346578\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbroken Nathy&#8217;s fall to All-Ireland final loss against Cnoc Mhuire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAA &#8211; ALL-IRELAND POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS B FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL<\/p>\n<p>Cnoc Mhuire Granard 3-11<\/p>\n<p>St Nathys College. Ballaghaderreen 1-9<\/p>\n<p>In Ballinamore<\/p>\n<p>By the time Conor Dourneen&#8217;s full-time whistle sounded, the blue brigade of Cnoc Mhuire Granard were ecstatic and clear winners over St Nathy&#8217;s of Ballaghaderreen.<\/p>\n<p>However, the eleven-point scoreline doesn&#8217;t paint the true picture of Saturday&#8217;s joust for the Paddy Drummond Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The proud soldiers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mayo<\/a>, Sligo, and Roscommon put in an effort they can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Granard intensity in defence and absolute refusal to take a backward step means that the trophy will rest in the O&#8217;Farrell County for the rest of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The destination of the title was anyone&#8217;s guess with eight minutes to go, when Declan Duffy had just stroked the ball over to leave just two between the sides as Nathy&#8217;s seemed to be riding the comeback trail.<\/p>\n<p>However, two net-shakers in as many minutes killed those hopes, consigning the boys in green to the unwanted title of &#8216;runners-up&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They will take many memories from this year. Whether it be that day in Bekan where they secured provincial honours against The Bish, or their first-rate performance in UL to book their place in Saturday&#8217;s joust for the mountain-top.<\/p>\n<p>However, to the victors go the spoils, and the celebrations will last for some time in East Longford.<\/p>\n<p>A full report will be carried in Tuesday&#8217;s edition of The Mayo News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/section\/2900\/gaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GAA-1760284460718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"227\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAA &#8211; ALL-IRELAND POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS B FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL Cnoc Mhuire Granard 3-11 St Nathys College. Ballaghaderreen 1-9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158053,92937,61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-346578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballinamore","tag-cnoc-mhuire-granard","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346578","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=346578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}