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Munster U-16A ladies football Clare 2-7 – Kerry 2-6 “We did It” screamed Martin Keavey as the Clare U-16 manager and a lot of the support staff thought they were one point in arrears when Aoibheann Ryan scored what was actually the winning free three minutes into injury time. The shock of the surprise and then the celebrations hit the players in the UL astropitch recently. An honest appraisal of this game would be to confirm that Clare were not lucky winners they were deserved winners. Playing against the strong wind in the first-half that waned when Clare would have hoped for its assistance in the second-half, it was Kerry who struck first for a converted penalty by Jessie Lynch after just two minutes. Soon after Caoimhe McDonnell saw a speculative effort come off the post before Naoise O’Donoghue added the first Kerry score. The Clare defence were tremendous in the tackle only for at times the Clare half-forwards and …
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