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St. Finbarr’s Ricky Barrett wins the ball from Douglas’ Adam Cantwell during the McCarthy Insurance Group SFL division one game at Douglas. Picture; Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\nDouglas 2-11 (2-4-7)<\/p>\n
St Finbarr\u2019s 2-9 (2-0-9)<\/p>\n
A much-needed win for Douglas as they got the better of St Finbarr\u2019s in their McCarthy Insurance Group Division One Football League clash at Douglas on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Two second half goals, in the space of three minutes, were key scores for the home side who upped their game considerably in the second half.<\/p>\n
Add in a superb display from Cork U20 players Sean Coakley, who led their attack with nine points over the hour.<\/p>\n
On this display it won\u2019t be long before he earns a call-up to the Cork senior side as he caused the Barrs problems all through.<\/p>\n
The Barrs were missing as many players as were present and had their chances to at least draw, going close to adding to their goal tally in the second half.<\/p>\n
St. Finbarr’s Ricky Barrett wins the ball from Douglas’ Adam Cantwell during the McCarthy Insurance Group SFL division one game at Douglas. Picture; Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
Coakley opened the scoring for Douglas, and he proved to be their only scorer in the first half, before Cillian Myers Murray replied for the Barrs.<\/p>\n
With six minutes gone the Barrs got their first goal when Ricky Barrett found the top corner with an unstoppable shot, to make it 1-1 to 0-1.<\/p>\n
Coakley replied from another free for Douglas and with 13 minutes gone the Barrs got their second goal.<\/p>\n
Matthew Ahern played a great ball to Cian O\u2019Sullivan and his shot went in off the post to make it 2-1 to 0-2.<\/p>\n
Bill O\u2019Connell increased the Barrs lead when he pointed, before Coakley got his third for Douglas, their first from play.<\/p>\n
He was on target from another free, to make it 2-2 to 0-4 with 25 minutes gone, in a low scoring half.<\/p>\n
Just before half time the Barrs had another chance of a goal when Adam Buckley played Ciaran Doolan in, but his effort went just wide, as the Barrs led by 2-2 to 0-4 at half time.<\/p>\n
Coakley pulled a point back for Douglas and he added another to put two between the sides.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan and Matthew Ahern replied for the Barrs, to make it 2-4 to 0-6 after 36 minutes.<\/p>\n
Two minutes later and Douglas got their first goal when Colm MacPhaidin got the final touch after a goalmouth scramble.<\/p>\n
With 41 minutes gone Douglas were back in front when Louis Dwan Fogarty played a great ball to Alan O\u2019Hare who rounded the keeper to find the back of the net, to make it 2-6 to 2-4.<\/p>\n
Adam Young then got the first two pointer of the tie to increase Douglas\u2019 lead further.<\/p>\n
The Barrs hit back through O\u2019Connell and Myers Murray, with two, to put one between the sides.<\/p>\n
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Douglas’ Dylan Ward is tackled by St. Finbarr’s Matthew Ahern during the McCarthy Insurance Group SFL division one game at Douglas. Picture; Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
Coakley was on target again with a two pointer to put four between the sides and despite late scores from the Barrs, Douglas held on for a much-needed win as they battle to avoid relegation. <\/p>\n
Scorers for Douglas: S Coakley 0-9 (3f, 1 2pt), C MacPhaidin, A O\u2019Hare 1-0 each, A Young 0-2 (1 2pt). <\/p>\n
St Finbarr\u2019s: C O\u2019Sullivan 1-1, R Barrett 1-0, C Myers Murray (2f), B O\u2019Connell 0-3 each, M Ahern, J Buttimer 0-1 each. <\/p>\n
DOUGLAS: A Cotter; K Hayes Curtin, D Ward, C MacPhaidin; S Aherne, L Dawn Fogarty, A Cantwell; N Hartnett, C Kingston; A Young, B Powter, H Quilligan; S Coakley, A O\u2019Leary, A O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n
Subs: K Shanahan for H Quilligan (41), D Reddington for A Young (50).<\/p>\n
ST FINBARR\u2019S: C Haines; S Ryan, J Burns, E Hurley; M Ahern, C Doolan, A Lyne; T Egan, I O\u2019Callaghan; B O\u2019Connell, R Barrett, A Buckley; C O\u2019Sullivan, C Myers Murray, J Brady.<\/p>\n
Subs: J Buttimer for J Brady (ht), J Brady for I O\u2019Callaghan (56 inj).<\/p>\n
Referee: Alan O\u2019Connor, Ballygarvan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Douglas 2-11 (2-4-7) St Finbarr\u2019s 2-9 (2-0-9) A much-needed win for Douglas as they got the better of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-483592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483592","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=483592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}