THE COUNTY FINAL
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Match report compiled by Conor McCausland and Ciara Lee from Mr. O’ Connor’s 6th class.
The county final turned out to be an outstanding game on Sunday for Portlaoise Senior team. It was a tight game throughout, but the town pulled it out of the bag. It meant that O`Dempsey’s were in hard luck though.
As both teams came out onto the pitch their supporters cheered them loudly. As Morris Degan threw in the ball O’ Dempsey’s went on the attack. The attack was stopped by Cahir Healy and Gareth Dylan with the help of Kieran Lillis. The ball was then passed to Ciarán McEvoy and nicely put over the bar. Then the O’Dempsey keeper kicked it out and it was caught by Kieran Lillis.
Further into the game Portlaoise scored 2 goals and ran out winners by 7 points. Even though it was Portlaoise’s 11th year winning, O’Dempseys put up a great fight against Portlaoise and they can be very proud of themselves.
On monday the Portlaoise team brought the trophies to our school and met with the 5th and 6th classes.
Maybe the players will have inspired the pupils to play football or indeed any sport that they are thinking of trying
WELL DONE THE TOWN!!!