Kildare 2-15
DIT 0-9
Kildare put this tie to bed very quickly and set up another clash with Dublin as they proved much too powerful for DIT in the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup semi-final
The champions flew out of the traps’ and had six points on the board inside nine minutes. DIT did launch a mini-revival but a brilliant Seamus Hanifin goal in the 29th minute put Kildare 1-11 to 0-5 in front at half time.
Eoghan O’Flaherty provided a sublime pass for Hanifin’s score and found the net himself in the 44th minute as Jason Ryan’s crew skated to a 12-point victory.
O’Flaherty finished with a goal and four points and he got the scoring under way with an early free. Gary White, Eamon Murphy, O’Flaherty, Padraig Fogarty and Hugh Lynch added to tally with the scores from White, O’Flaherty and Lynch right out of the top drawer.
Conor Madden was DIT’s prime contributor with six points and he got the students off the mark from a free after 10 minutes.
When Shane Dowling finished well for their fourth point in the 25th minute, the deficit was still only five.
Hanafin’s composed finish, after being found by an inch-perfect pass from O’Flaherty, stopped DIT in their tracks though and it was a nine-point game at half time.
Madden had two points not long after the resumption but when White’s attempt for a point landed in O’Flaherty’s arms, the Carbury man cut back inside before shooting low to the far corner, via a slight deflection to confirm the result.
Scorers for Kildare: E O’Flaherty 1-4 (0-1f); P Fogarty 0-4; S Hanafin 1-0; E Murphy (1 45), F Dowling (1f) 0-2 each; G White, G Farrell, H Lynch 0-1 each.
Scorers for DIT: C Madden 0-6(4fs); P Brogan, S Dowling, C Ferris (45) 0-1 each.
KILDARE
1 Tom Corley
2 Ollie Lyons
3 Peter Kelly
4 Mick O’Grady
10 Gavin Farrell
5 Eoin Doyle
7 Colin O’Shea
8 Gary White
9 Hugh Lynch
6 Kevin Murnaghan
11 Eoghan O’Flaherty
12 Eamon Murphy
15 Fionn Dowling
13 Seamus Hanafin
14 Padraig Fogarty
Subs
18 James O’Connor for Doyle (49)
21 Seamus McNally for Lyons (55)
22 David Whyte for Lynch (58)
24 Coam Bolton for Dowling (59)
16 James Robinson for Corley (65)
20 Brian Kinihan for Farrell (65)
DIT
1 Conor Ferris (Dublin)
2 Oisín Manning (Dublin)
3 Brian Power (Meath)
4 Shane Clayton (Dublin)
5 Shane Dowling (Meath)
6 Aran Waters (Dublin)
7 Darren O’Reilly (Dublin)
9 Ciaran Reddin (Dublin)
10 Robbie Gaughan (Dublin)
12 Eoin Fletcher (Dublin)
24 Albert Martin (Dublin)
13 Bryan McMahon (Meath)
14 Paul Brogan (Dublin)
15 Conor Madden (Cavan)
23 Enda Flanagan (Cavan)
Subs
18 Garbhán Gallagher (Dublin) for Flanagan (ht)
20 Glenn O’Reilly (Dublin) for Dowling (54)
8 David Shatwell (Dublin) for Gaughan (61)
29 Ian McDonald (Wicklow) for Brogan (61)
17 Colin Doyle(Dublin) for Manning (63)
19 Conor Ryan (Dublin) for Power (65)
Referee: D Gough (Meath)
