St Enda\u2019s\u00a0impressed upon the restart through two points apiece from Sweeney and McGarry but Cuala continued to keep them at arm\u2019s length as Con O\u2019Callaghan landed a trio of scores at the opposite end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colm Basquel appeared to have offered his side fresh hope as he put the finishing touches to a well-worked move to leave just three points separating the teams by the 40th\u00a0minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any momentum that goal might have generated\u00a0was lost in the blink of an eye as Peadar \u00d3 Cofaigh\u2019s scruffy attempt did just enough to get over the line with Con O\u2019Callaghan crashing home the rebound for added security.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cuala looked to be easing their way home as they enhanced their lead through points from Kennedy, Cal Doran and Niall O\u2019Callaghan but Sweeney kept the Boden tally ticking over with two fisted scores at the opposite end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A cracking goal from Sweeney that left Darragh O\u2019Dowd clutching at air\u00a0reduced Cuala\u2019s buffer to four points and that margin was shortened even further as McGarry and Calum O\u2019Dwyer split the uprights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The contest deserved a thrilling conclusion and it duly arrived as O\u2019Dwyer jinked through to leave Sweeney well placed to crash home from close range and end Cuala\u2019s run as All-Ireland champions in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scorers \u2013 Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s:\u00a0D Sweeney 2-8 (0-4f); C Basquel 1-1; R McGarry 0-4; R O\u2019Dwyer 0-3 (1 P2); R Basquel (P2), C O\u2019Dwyer (P2) 0-2 each, J Madden 0-1.\u00a0Cuala:\u00a0C O\u2019Callaghan 0-7 (1 F2; 1f, 1 \u201945); N O\u2019Callaghan 0-6; P \u00d3 Cofaigh Byrne, C O\u2019Brien 1-0 each; E Kennedy 0-3; David O\u2019Dowd 0-2; C McMorrow, C Dunne, C Doran, C Mulally 0-1 apiece.<\/p>\n
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Ballyboden St Enda\u2019s: H O\u2019Sullivan; B Bobbett, C Flaherty, S Clayton; A Gavin, H Donaghy, P Healy; C Darcy, J Holland; R O\u2019Dwyer, R McGarry, J Madden; R Basquel, C Basquel, D Sweeney. Subs:\u00a0P Warren for Donaghy (half-time), J McGuire for R Basquel (34), K Kennedy for Healy (44),\u00a0C O\u2019Dwyer for R O\u2019Dwyer\u00a0(53), D O\u2019Reilly for Sweeney (63).<\/p>\n
Cuala: Darragh O\u2019Dowd; D Conroy, M Fitzsimons, E O\u2019Callaghan; E Kennedy, C McMorrow, David O\u2019Dowd; P \u00d3 Cofaigh Byrne, P Duffy; C Dunne, C Doran, O Hussey; N O\u2019Callaghan, C O\u2019Callaghan, C O\u2019Brien. Subs: C Groarke for Hussey (half-time), C Mulally for O\u2019Brien (44), L Fitzgerald for \u00d3 Cofaigh Byrne (52), M Conroy for D Conroy (63).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Referee: Ian Howley (O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Enda\u2019s\u00a0impressed upon the restart through two points apiece from Sweeney and McGarry but Cuala continued to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-62740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/62740","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=62740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}