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06 Sept 2025

St Eunan's have it all too easy against Realt Na Mara in Bundoran

The O'Donnells and McGeehins had a field day against a Bundoran side ravaged by injury

St Eunan's have it all too easy against Realt Na Mara in Bundoran

Oran Winston of St Eunan's gives chase with Matthew Duffy from Bundoran on the ball

As expected St Eunan's had it pretty easy in Gaelic Park Bundoran as they went two from two in the Michael Murphy senior championship.

Bundoran 1-6
St Eunan's 1-21

The gulf in class was obvious from an early stage as the O'Donnells were running riot in good conditions. By the eighth minute Niall and Shane O'Donnell had two each while Sean McVeigh had come forward for the other point.

In between Peter McGonigle had a good point on the break for Bundoran who were without Paul Brennan because of an injury picked up at training and also their main scorer Gary Clancy.

The pattern continued with the McGeehins adding a point each and Conor O'Donnell came forward to add the eighth point.

Jamie Brennan found the range after Matthew Duffy drew a foul but before the break Brian MacIntyre added another to leave it 0-9 to 0-2 at the break.

Bundoran's Peter McGonigle faces up to Sean McGettigan and Conor O'Donnell snr of St Eunans Picture: Geraldine Foy

Cian McEniff added a point from a mark after 25 seconds of the restart but Sean McVeigh also found the range. Then came the score of the game with a long kick-out from Shaun Patton finding Niall O'Donnell well inside the Bundoran '45' and he went forward to draw the defence and set up Eoin McGeehin for a palmed goal.

McGeehin added two quick points to stretch the lead to 1-12 to 0-3. Bundoran responded well with Adam McGlone breaking through the middle to fire low past Shaun Patton.


It didn't affect the pattern as St Eunan's went on a point scoring spree from Oran Winston, Padraig McGettigan, Niall O'Donnell, Peter Devine, Conor O'Donnell jnr and snr.

Jamie Brennan (free) and Peter McGonigle had late Bundoran points while Niall O'Donnell added two for the winners.

St Eunan’s had so many good players they were able to waltz through this game playing some very attractive football with 11 different scorers. There will be tougher games ahead.

Bundoran scorers: Adam McGlone 1-0; Jamie Brennan 0-3,3f; Peter McGonigle 0-2; Cian McEniff 0-1m.

St Eunan's scorers: Eoin McGeehin 1-4; Niall O'Donnell 0-5,1f; Sean McVeigh, Shane O'Donnell,  Conor O'Donnell 0-2 each; Peter Devine, Ronan McGeehin, Brian MacIntyre, Oran Winston, Padraig McGettigan, Conor O'Donnell jnr 0-1 each.

Bundoran:  Conor Carty; Brian McHenry, Johnny Boyle, Ciaran Doherty; Adam Gallagher, Oisin Walsh, Timmy Govorov; Matthew Duffy, Peter McGonigle; Adam McGlone, Darragh Hoey,  Michael McEniff; Jamie Brennan, Cian McEniff, Shane McGowan. Subs: Conor Jack McManus for M McEniff; Kyle McNulty for D Hoey (both ht); Niall Carr for C Doherty; Richie Morris for A McGlone.

St Eunan's:  Shaun Patton; Aaron Deeney, Caolan Ward, Peter McEniff; Sean McVeigh, Conor O'Donnell snr., Peter Devine; Sean McGettigan, Darragh Mulgrew; Ciaran Moore, Shane O'Donnell, Kevin Kealy; Padraig McGettigan, Niall O'Donnell, Eoin McGeehin. Subs: Ronan McGeehin for Mulgrew; Brian MacIntyre for R McGeehin; Anthony Gallagher for P McEniff; Conor O'Donnell jnr for P McGettigan; Oran Winston for E McGeehin.

Referee: Enda McFeely (St Mary's, Convoy)

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