Corn na Boinne Cup for Dunderry

Dunderry recovered from a shaky start to win the Corn na Boinne Cup this evening at Pairc Tailteann with a 3-15 to 2-14 victory over Walterstown.

Walterstown started at high tempo and managed a brace of first minute points from Cormac Madden and Brian O'Connell with Colm Reilly opening his account 60 seconds later.

The Blacks continued in the ascendancy from the penalty spot, a free awarded after Ruairi O'Dowd was impeded twice.

Paul Donnellan duly converted and the goal was followed by further points from O'Connell (free) and Conor O'Sullivan as Dunderry started to look like a team that would be completely outplayed.

Dunderry got off the mark when Stephen Coogan split the posts, but the influential Alban Crosbie countered at the other end and it appeared, at that stage, that Walterstown would settle into the game again.

However, they only managed three more points before the break with Madden, Aaron McLoughlin and O'Sullivan finding their range while Dunderry got into the game with a Morgan Callaghan goal.

Coogan, Morgan Callaghan and Conor Farrell added further points before a two-goal blitz on the stroke of half-time gave Dunderry a 3-4 to 1-9 interval advantage. Jordan Martin and Coogan were the goalscorers for Kevin Dowd's men.

Dunderry were dominant after the resumption and hardly gave Waltestown a look in.

They extended the lead to seven points by the end of the third-quarter with five points from Coogan and one each by Farrell, Paddy Kennelly and Conor Dempsey while Walterstown registered through O'Dowd and O'Connell (free) as they trailed by 1-11 to 3-12.

O'Connell added another point to leave two goals in it and then he found the net after a surging run from Cormac Madden made the opening.

The Blacks kept going and got the deficit down to two points when Crosbie converted a free, but they could only muster one more score from an O'Connell free while Dunderry had the accurate boot of Coogan (two frees) and a late Callaghan point to their credit.