Kilcar ease to victory in Gaelic Park over Realt na Mara 

Newly crowned All-Ireland Gaeltacht champions Kilcar secured two league points with a routine victory in Bundoran on Saturday night.

The homeside, who have struggled in the current campaign, opened the scoring on two minutes with a point from a Timmy Govorov free. Oran Doogan levelled matters two minutes later  and Eoin McHugh edged the Towney men ahead in the 9th minute.

The home team should have retaken the lead on 13 mins when Adam McGlone set up Timmy Govorov but his shot was excellently saved by Eoin O’Donnell; the rebound was then struck by Ryan Blanc but again the Kilcar rearguard stood up and averted the danger.

Almost immediately the visitors made the home team pay as Eoin McHugh evaded at least three tackles to cooly slot to the Bundoran net. A fine Matthew McClean point put five  between the sides at the midway point. Anton Govorov got Realt na Mara their second score but two Matthew McClean frees left six  between the sides on 22 mins.

Bundoran’s best move of the match saw Adam McGlone split the posts on 26 mins but remarkably this would be their last score of the match. Three further points from Pauric McShane, Mark McHugh and McClean left the halftime score Realt na Mara 0-03, Kilcar 1-08

The  second half was played at a somewhat  pedestrian pace with the homeside very wasteful in kicking 11 wides and Kilcar seemed happy to be just  going through the motions.

The first score eventually did  arrive after 15 minutes when Mark Sweeney found the range. The only other points came from McClean and Doogan in the 51st and 53rd minutes.

Realt na Mara scorers:  Timmy Govorov, Anton Govorov, Adam McGlone 0-1 each.

Kilcar scorers: Matthew McClean 0-5,3f; Eoin McHugh 1-1; Oran Doogan 0-2; Pauric  McShane, Mark McHugh, Mark Sweeney 0-1 each.

Realt na Mara: Conor Carty;  Maitiu Tierney, Johnny Boyle, Lorcan Long; Darragh Hoey, Matthew Duffy, Lee Smyth; Oisin Walsh, Michael McEniff; Adam McGlone, Kyle McNulty, Anton Govorov, Ryan Blanc, Ciaran McCaughey, Timmy Govorov.

 Subs: Brendan Oates for R Blanc (ht); Conor Flanagan for L Long (58)

Kilcar: Eoin O Donnell; Paddy McShane, Pauric Carr, Ryan McShane; Kenny Doogan, Mark McHugh, Oran Doogan; Eoin McHugh, Pauric McShane; Evan Kavanagh, Conor Doherty, Matthew McClean, Conor O Donnell, Gary Molloy, Mark Sweeney

Subs: Ryan Jones for C Doherty (24); Ben Rafferty for M McClean (54);  Eoin  Cormack for E McHugh (56); Barry Shovlin for M McHugh (58); Hugh O'Donnell for  R McShane (60)

Referee: Jimmy White Killybegs