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In bitterly cold conditions at Craughwell on Saturday, St Flannan’s senior camogie team bowed out of the All-Ireland Colleges Championship when suffering a heavy defeat to Loughrea team St Brigid’s. The scoreline doesn’t reflect fairly on the Flannan’s girls and their coaches, Laura Linnane and Claire Ryan, whose performance, especially in the second half, should have seen them closer to their opponents on the scoreboard when the final whistle sounded.St Brigid’s opened the scoring with a point in the second minute, after keeper Suzy O’Shea deflected a shot on goal over the bar. O’Shea was kept busy in those opening minutes and pulled off another of couple of saves, giving her side time to settle. Both sides traded points before the Galway side finally got the better of O’Shea when Rachel Monaghan breached the Flannan’s defence for the opening goal. Monaghan added another two points before Aoibheann Malone pointed again for St Flannan’s. Monaghan, who was a thorn in Flannan’s …
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