04 July 2007 Mighty Mourneabbey shock Donoughmore Share this Article 0 0 0 Shares! 0 Shares! No Mourn for Abbey as Don record no More. By Fr Liam Kelleher Mourneabbey 2-10 Donoughmore 1-8 For the past 11 years the girls of Donoughmore have majestically graced the football fields of Cork with swashbuckling ease, their dominance rarely threatened. That proud record is no more, there were sensationally beaten in the First round of this years Championship at Mourneabbey on Tuesday night. At a time when there has been a lot of manoeuvring in clubs adding to their squads, in a transfer mania, to try and break the Donoughmore grip, it is heartening that a club with home grown players have been the ones to do it. Far from adding to their squad they have actually lost a number of players in recent weeks to the newly formed Mallow club. This should be a lesson to clubs and a lesson to the County, that you must build from the bottom up with your own resources not depending on others to do it for them. While Con and Jerry OSullivan and Co, were over the moon with their win, they put it in perspective. Winning the Co Senior this year is not a priority with their young team, which contains 8, they had 9, but recently lost Jenny Luddy to the new Mallow club, of the Cork minor team, that take on Galway in the All-Ireland Semi final on Sunday. Their priority is the All-Ireland Intermediate title. Donoughmore will still be the team to beat in the championship, and they are still there with a chance to make it a dozen titles on the trot. Mournabbey pay a lot of attention to detail they brought 2 players back from Dublin for the game while another arrived back in the country an hour before the game. Donoughmore dominated the opening half and thanks to a goal in the 7th minute from Cork Capt Juliet Murphy they opened a 1-5 to 0-5 interval lead their points coming from Aisling OConnor, Catriona OConnell, Ruth Ann Buckley, Kathleen OBrien kept Mourneabbey in touch with super points. With Siobhan Forde and Eva ODonoghue contributing as well. Massive effort. Morenabbey put in a massive effort in the 2nd half. Ciara OSullivan and Sheila OCallaghan got on top at midfield, the defence marshalled by Kathy Ann Stack, Patricia Murphy and Kathyrn Coakley in particular put the shackles on their illustrious opponents. The forwards with some close interpassing play did the rest. Laura Harington struck the first major blow netting in the 41st minute, Siobhan Forde added 2 points and the Abbey were in full flow. Shelia OCallaghan virtually put them out of sight with another goal, but there was still 18 minutes to go and the large crowd were anticipating a Donoughmore revival but it never came, all they could manage was 3 points in the 2nd period. A new era had dawned for Mourrneabbey and it certainly will not be a false dawn, for a club which has worked its way all the way up to the very top and for this they are an inspiration and an example to every other club of what can be done. Scorers for Mourneabbey: Siobhan Forde and Kathleen OBrien 0-3 each, Laura Harrington and Sheila OCallaghan 1-0 each, Eva ODonoughue 0-2 frees and Michelle Browne 0-1. Scorers for Donoughmore: Juliet Murphy 1-2 (0-2 frees), Ruth A Buckley 0-2, Anne M OShea, Aisling OConnor, Catriona OConnell, and Rena Buckley 0-1 each. Mourneabbey: E Forde; E Harrington, CA Stack, R Larkin; P Murphy, K Coakley, S Conroy; S OCallaghan, C OSullivan; R OSullivan, S Forde, K OBrien; E ODonoghue, L Harrington, M Browne. Donoughmore: T Rodgers; E Walsh, S OConnell, L Barrett; A Barrett, C Moran, V Sheehan; J Muprhy, G OConnor; AM OShea, A OConnor, C OConnell; R Buckley, L Muprhy, RA Buckley. Subs: R Cogan for A OConnor (HT; inj). Share this Article 0 0