Despite an impressive comeback from Glynn Barntown who went into the half time interval 1-14 to 3 points down and just coming up short by the final whistle with a much improved second half performance of a scoreline of 1-17 to 1-13. The young St Martins side lived up to their pre match favourites badge with a winning performance in the first half when they achived a 1-8 score in just under a 8 minute period, Glynn-Barntown showed their determination right up to the end but St. Martin’s were undoubtedly the stronger side over the 60 minutes and deservingly took the Premier Minor hurling Crown
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St. Martin’s: Dylan Byrne; Páuric Rossiter, Johnny Hamilton, Conor Firman; Tony Kelly, Aaron Maddock, Darragh Rossiter; Joe O’Connor (0-2, 1 pen.), Jake Firman; Darren Codd (0-1), Joe Coleman (0-7, 5 frees), Mikie Coleman; Nicky Greene (0-3), Harry O’Connor (capt., 1-4), Rory O’Connor. Subs. – Darragh Kenny for M. Coleman (27), Michael Codd for Kenny (52), Conor Coleman for Greene (60+3), also Brad Cohen, Cian Ryan, Martin Whelan, Barry O’Connor, Ryan Bates, Kyle Firman, Paddy Hamilton, Adam Cantwell, Jack Devereux, Ben Maddock, Ciarán Dunne, Philip McDermott, Maurice Walsh, Stephen Doyle, Stephen Roche.
Glynn-Barntown: Adam Kennedy; Stephen Lyne, Rowan White (0-3, 2 frees), Frank Hynes; Ben O’Shea, David Clarke, Dylan Roche; Conor Fenlon, James Stafford (0-1); Fionn Cooney (0-1), Daniel Carroll, Matthew Joyce (0-8 frees); Ian Moran (capt., 1-0), Cillian Joyce, Kevin Mahoney. Subs. – Aaron Kehoe for C. Joyce (37), Matt Doyle for Mahoney (37), Ciarán Joyce for Cooney, inj. (60+1), also John Kehoe, Luke Rafter, John Lacey, Daire McCormack, Bill Joyce, Ger Dempsey, Cormac Rowe, Dylan Lyne, David Roche, Jack Brazzill.
Referee: James Owens
