Raheny were pushed all the way before eventually pipping Ballinteer St John\u2019s by 0-17 to 1-13 in their Go-Ahead Ireland Dublin Adult Football League Division 1 clash at Marley Park on Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The visitors played with the benefit of a strong breeze and availed fully to lead by 0-15 to 1-5 at half-time thanks largely to two-pointers from Conor Baldwin, Darren Lunney and one off either foot from Brian Fenton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latter dominated the aerial exchanges and his influence helped yield further scores from Cian Ivers, Thomas Hurley, Adam McAweeney and Sean Magann in the opening half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ballinteer started brightly to lead through a Jack Long goal with scores after the break by Joey Quirke and Luke Cullen reducing their deficit incrementally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Raheny held on through\u00a0second-half\u00a0points from Killian McGuirk and Hurley with St John\u2019s dropping a late two-pointed free into the hands of away goalkeeper Darragh O\u2019Sullivan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That defeat saw previously unbeaten St John\u2019s slip back into the back, two points behind leaders Ballymun Kickhams, who maintained their perfect start by beating Skerries Harps by 3-11 to 1-10. \u00a0<\/p>\n
There was another away win at St Mobhi Road as Kilmacud Crokes impressed when getting the better of Na Fianna by 1-17 to 0-14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The visitors dominated the first-half to lead by 1-11 to 0-3 at the interval with Dara Mullin\u2019s goal augmented by points by Paul Mannion and Darragh Dempsey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Na Fianna piled on the pressure upon the restart, kicking a trio of early two-pointers but Crokes held firm with Mannion (0-6), Mullin (1-3), Dempsey (0-5) all to the fore while Luke Ward, Andy McGowan and Shane Horan also chipped in with scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Go-Ahead Ireland AFL1: St Mary\u2019s Saggart\u00a03-16\u00a0Castleknock\u00a01-22; Cuala\u00a04-13\u00a0St Jude\u2019s\u00a00-11; Thomas Davis0-10\u00a0St Patrick\u2019s Donabate\u00a04-15; Ballinteer St John\u2019s\u00a01-13\u00a0Raheny\u00a00-17; Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s\u00a01-16\u00a0St Vincent\u2019s\u00a01-12; Skerries Harps\u00a01-10\u00a0Ballymun Kickhams\u00a03-11; Clontarf\u00a03-13Lucan Sarsfields\u00a00-10; Na Fianna\u00a00-14\u00a0Kilmacud Crokes\u00a01-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Go-Ahead Ireland AFL2, Whitehall Colmcille preserved their unbeaten start when edging Naomh Olaf by 0-13 to 0-11 at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Bhriain on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The visitors enjoyed a wind-assisted 0-8 to 0-2 lead\u00a0by the turnaround with Tony O\u2019Sullivan delivering a hugely influential display for the winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three early points in the second-half handed Whitehall a sufficient buffer with three Peter Moloney scores and two-pointers by Sean Foran and Sean Gannon pivotal to their victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colmcille lie a point behind league leaders St Maur\u2019s, who dropped their first point of the campaign when drawing 0-20 to 1-17 with St Sylvester\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At Clontarf Road, Scoil U\u00ed Chonaill picked up their second successive victory as they defeated Round Towers Lusk by 3-13 to 2-13.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The hosts were down a number of regulars but a crop of last year\u2019s minors excelled over the hour with Conor Maher leading the way with 1-2 from midfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The likes of Fionn Daly, Luke Murphy and Alan\u00a0Murphy more than held their own for a Scoil side that held the initiative through 2-4 by Emmet Rogan and a two-pointer by wing-back Eoghan O\u2019Connell.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Home captain Evan Doyle\u00a0was an inspired presence around the middle third as\u00a0Scoil took the points thanks to strong defensive displays from Sean Morgan, Roan O\u2019Halloran and Brian Maloney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Go-Ahead Ireland AFL2: Scoil U\u00ed Chonaill\u00a03-13\u00a0Round Towers Lusk\u00a02-13; Fingallians\u00a01-12\u00a0Erin\u2019s Isle\u00a02-9; St Oliver Plunkett\u2019s\/ER\u00a03-15\u00a0Fingal Ravens\u00a01-14; Naomh Barr\u00f3g\u00a02-12\u00a0Kilmacud Crokes\u00a01-15; Naomh Olaf\u00a00-11\u00a0Whitehall Colmcille\u00a00-13; Naomh Mearn\u00f3g\u00a00-14\u00a0Templeogue Synge Street3-8; St Maur\u2019s\u00a00-20\u00a0St Sylvester\u2019s\u00a01-17; St Brigid\u2019s\u00a01-14\u00a0Clanna Gael Fontenoy\u00a00-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raheny were pushed all the way before eventually pipping Ballinteer St John\u2019s by 0-17 to 1-13 in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-396052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396052","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=396052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}