![\"Sean](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5170684_5_articleinline_IMG_2407_5b2_5d.jpg\" "\\"Sean")
Sean O’Leary, who was top scorer for Douglas with 2-3<\/p>\n\n Douglas 4-15 (4-0-15)\n <\/p>\n
\n Whitechurch 0-12 (0-2-8)\n <\/p>\n
Douglas made a winning start to the AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football Championship campaign, as they defeated Whitechurch in their one-sided opener at Ballinlough.<\/p>\n
The opening half was evenly contested, with Doulgas getting all their scores from play, while Whitechurch converted two frees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Douglas got their four goals, including one from a penalty in the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whitechurch responded with the game\u2019s two-pointers, including one from a free.<\/p>\n
With the elements in their favour for the first half, Douglas opened the scoring with a point by Jamie O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n
Whitechurch began to turn the screw as persistent fouling was proving to be costly for Douglas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Carroll opened Whitechurch\u2019s account as he slotted over a free in the fifth minute.<\/p>\n
Harry Quilligan tagged on a point for Doulgas, but Carroll replied with his second pointed free.<\/p>\n
Quilligan added his second point for Douglas, midway through the opening half, but this was cancelled out as Aidan Kelleher got Whitechurch\u2019s first point from play.<\/p>\n
Sean O’Leary, who was top scorer for Douglas with 2-3<\/p>\n
Douglas began to take a grip on proceedings as they opened up a three-point gap. Sean O\u2019Leary, Ryan O\u2019Sullivan and O\u2019Keeffe each added unanswered points.<\/p>\n
Sean O\u2019Reilly responded with a point for Whitechurch. This left the half-time scoreline reading 0-6 to 0-4 in Douglas\u2019 favour.<\/p>\n
The second half was one-way traffic in favour of Douglas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They stretched the margin to 0-9 to 0-4 with two points, including a free by O\u2019Keeffe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quilligan also chipped in with his third point.<\/p>\n
Whitechurch responded as Darragh O\u2019Connell converted a free from outside the Douglas 40-metre arc.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was followed by Carroll\u2019s third pointed free, which reduced the deficit to two points.<\/p>\n
Douglas had Whitechurch back on the defensive as Sean O\u2019Leary got his second point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wayward kick-outs were proving to be Whitechurch\u2019s undoing. In the 42nd minute, Donnacha Reddington set up O\u2019Leary for the game\u2019s opening goal.<\/p>\n
Sean O\u2019Leary exchanged points with Jamie Hegarty, before Hegarty landed the game\u2019s only two-pointer from play.<\/p>\n
Douglas had Whitechurch pinned back for most of the final quarter.<\/p>\n
Douglas were awarded a penalty, from which Jamie O\u2019Brien drilled home their second goal, with eight minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Sean O\u2019Leary was credited with Douglas\u2019 third goal, following a m\u00eal\u00e9e in the Whitechurch goalmouth.<\/p>\n
Whitechurch responded with points from play by Darragh O\u2019Connell and John Keleher.<\/p>\n
Entering stoppage time, Padraig McGrath got two points from play for Douglas. This was followed by their fourth goal by Billy Fraher with the last kick of the game.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Douglas: S O\u2019Leary 2-3; Jamie O\u2019Brien 1-1 (1-0 pen); H Quilligan 0-4; B Fraher 1-0; C O\u2019Keeffe 0-3 (0-1f); R O\u2019Sullivan, P McGrath 0-2 each.<\/p>\n
\n Whitechurch: D O\u2019Connell 0-3 (1 2pt f); J Hegarty 0-3 (1 2pt); B Carroll 0-3f; A Kelleher, S O\u2019Reilly, J Kelleher 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Douglas: C O\u2019Leary; K Hayes-Curtin, D O\u2019Callaghan, N Lynch; J Mouret, J Cremin, D Reddington; G O\u2019Sullivan, Jack O\u2019Brien; R O\u2019Sullivan, S O\u2019Leary, D Lenihan; Jamie O\u2019Brien, C O\u2019Keeffe, H Quilligan.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: B Fraher for Lenihan (h\/t), L Healy for D Reddington, P McGrath for O\u2019Keeffe (both 46), C Reddington for Quilligan (52), E Kelly for Hayes-Curtin (56).<\/p>\n
\n Whitechurch: S Dennehy; D Culley, R O\u2019Connell, A Murphy; S O\u2019Reilly, J Kelleher, C Hennessy; R Buckley, C O\u2019Brien; D Kelleher, J Hegarty, R Dennehy; D O\u2019Connell, A Kelleher, B Carroll.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: M Callanan for D Kelleher (44), J McGrath for Hennessy (52, inj), J Dennehy for Carroll, C Dennehy for C O\u2019Brien (both 52).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: David Daly (Brian Dillon\u2019s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Douglas 4-15 (4-0-15) Whitechurch 0-12 (0-2-8) Douglas made a winning start to the AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-569376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569376","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=569376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}