All-Ireland SFC Round One<\/p>\n
Mayo 1-24 Monaghan 2-20<\/p>\n
By Colm Shalvey at St Tiernach’s Park, Clones<\/p>\n
Mayo held off a storming second-half rally from Monaghan in Clones.<\/p>\n
Mayo looked to be cruising when they led by 12 points early in the second half, but they had to cling on in the end after a typically resilient effort by Monaghan, inspired in no small part by the impact of Bobby McCaul, who saw his display cruelly cut short by a serious-looking injury.<\/p>\n
Monaghan had a dozen scorers in all, but they were left to rue several missed goal chances, with Jack Livingstone making some vital saves on his SFC debut for Mayo. Ryan O\u2019Donoghue hit 0-8 for Mayo, while Kobe McDonald\u2019s 1-4, at the scene of his league debut earlier this year, also proved crucial.<\/p>\n
Jack Carney\u2019s first-minute two-pointer set the tone for Mayo, who pressed Monaghan relentlessly in the early stages, with Ryan O\u2019Donoghue, Jordan Flynn and Kobe McDonald adding scores.<\/p>\n
Monaghan took nine minutes to open their account through Jack McCarron and while Andrew Woods and David Garland had goal chances, they couldn\u2019t force them home. Two-pointers by Darragh Beirne, Carney, O\u2019Donoghue and McDonald stretched Mayo\u2019s lead, with McDonald also palming to the net from close range from Beirne\u2019s pass across the square. O\u2019Donoghue landed a huge score from distance just before the half-time whistle to send Mayo in with a commanding advantage at 1-17 to 0-9.<\/p>\n
Jordan Flynn moved Andy Moran\u2019s side 12 clear within a minute of the restart, but Monaghan slowly started to close the gap via a pair of Rory Beggan \u201845s and a trademark long-range effort from Dessie Ward.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donoghue replied with a brace, but Bobby McCaul was proving to be a real handful for the Mayo defence after his introduction and despite a series of near-misses, the youngster\u2019s persistence paid off with 1-1 in quick succession as the Monaghan crowd found their voice.<\/p>\n
Jack McCarron landed scores from either side of the arc to fuel Monaghan\u2019s comeback, before a brilliant solo goal by Stephen Mooney made it a two-point game. An O\u2019Donoghue free settled Mayo\u2019s nerves and while Max Maguire raised one last orange flag with time almost up, McDonald\u2019s superb catch from the resulting kick-out ended a rip-roaring contest.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Mayo: Ryan O\u2019Donoghue 0-8 (1 2-pt, 1 2-pt-f, 2f), Kobe McDonald 1-4 (1 2-pt), Jack Carney 0-4 (2 2-pt), Darragh Beirne 0-4 (1 2-pt-f), Jordan Flynn 0-2, Paddy Durcan 0-1, Conor Loftus 0-1.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Monaghan: Jack McCarron 0-5 (1 2-pt, 1f), Bobby McCaul 1-1, Stephen Mooney 1-0, Conor McCarthy 0-2, Rory Beggan 0-2 (2 \u201845s), Andrew Woods 0-2 (1 2-pt), Dessie Ward 0-2 (1 2-pt), Max Maguire 0-2 (1 2-pt), M\u00edche\u00e1l Bannigan 0-1 (f) Aaron Carey 0-1, M\u00edche\u00e1l McCarville 0-1, Ois\u00edn McGorman 0-1.<\/p>\n
Mayo: Jack Livingstone; Jack Coyne, David McBrien, Enda Hession; Sam Callinan, Donnacha McHugh, Diarmuid Duffy; Stephen Coen, Jack Carney; Jordan Flynn, Conor Loftus, Hugh O\u2019Loughlin; Darragh Beirne, Ryan O\u2019Donoghue, Kobe McDonald.<\/p>\n
Subs: Paul Towey for Loftus, Paddy Durcan for Coen (both 48); Fenton Kelly for Duffy (56); Aidan O\u2019Shea for O\u2019Loughlin (58); Diarmuid O\u2019Connor for Beirne (62).<\/p>\n
Monaghan: Rory Beggan; Dylan Byrne, Ryan O\u2019Toole, Killian Lavelle; Aaron Carey, Dessie Ward, Conor McCarthy; M\u00edche\u00e1l McCarville, Karl Gallagher; Ryan McAnespie, M\u00edche\u00e1l Bannigan, Ois\u00edn McGorman; David Garland, Andrew Woods, Jack McCarron.<\/p>\n
Subs: Max Maguire for McAnespie (inj., 24); Bobby McCaul for Garland, Ryan Wylie for Carey (both H-T); Stephen Mooney for McGorman (53); Fion\u00e1n Carolan for McCaul (inj., 58).<\/p>\n
Temporary sub: Robbie Hanratty for Gallagher (27-H-T).<\/p>\n
Referee: David Coldrick (Meath).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Round One Mayo 1-24 Monaghan 2-20 By Colm Shalvey at St Tiernach’s Park, Clones Mayo held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-476658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476658","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=476658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}