Seniors Fail to progress

Miltown 0-7 Wolfe Tones na Sionna 2-6

Following their first round defeat to Shannon Gaels (1-12 to 0-9) this defeat has eliminated Miltown, for the second year in succession, at the group stages of the championship. In extremely poor conditions Graham Kelly open the scoring with a fine point after 7 minutes. Wolfe Tones then tagged on 4 points before a Joe Curtin free closed the gap to two. Miltown had loads of possession but they squandered a lot of it as the difficult conditions made it difficult to execute their long ball tactic. Micheal Malone, who had been introduced at the expense of Garry Egan only moments before, raced through the heart of the Wolfe Tones defence, played a nice one-two with Joe Curtin, but dragged his shot wide of the right hand post.
Conditions deteriorated significantly in the second half but Miltown again started well and began to close the gap. However with the score at 6 points to 5 in favour of Wolfe tones a speculative ball into the Miltown square was dropped by Niall Quinn and the umpire awarded a goal as he adjudged it to have crossed the line. This was a blow to the Miltown side but the rallied and had a chance to level the game when Brian Curtin was fouled in the box. Joe Curtin took responsibility for the spot kick and his low shot drew a good save from the Wolfe Tones goalie. Wolfe Tones sealed the game when Leahy score an excellent gaol with time running out.
Overall Miltown played well and had lots of possession but Wolfe Tones were much more efficient when they had the ball and took the opportunity's they created while Miltown's attack was disjointed and laboured throughout the game. Miltown also over relied on hand passing in the middle third of the pitch and in the poor conditions this led the an increase the handling errors. All in all a disappointing day!!
Miltown Team: Niall Quinn, Enda Malone, Kevin Burke, Peter Hennessy, Brian Curtin, Gordon Kelly, Michael Hehir, Graham Kelly, Sean Meade, Shane Curtin, Kevin Keavey, Michael Barry, Garry Egan, Michael Neylon, Joe Curtin. Subs: Micheal Malone for Garry Egan, Dessie Molohan for Michael Barry and Cathal Lafferty for Shane Curtin.

Miltown qualify for U21 final

Miltown 2-10 Corofin 0-9

2-5 from full forward Joe Curtin secured Miltown's place in the U21 B final. Corofin started well and the sides were evenly matched until Joe Curtin took advantage of confusion in the Corofin defence to fist his first goal. From then on Miltown were in charge with points from David Talty, Enda Fox and Curtin again. Miltown led 1-8 to 4 at half time.
Corofin had the better of the exchanges in the second half and narrowed the gap to 4 points. But Curtin goalled against the run of play to seal the game..