Uni Limerick 3-9 St Pat's TC 0-10: UNIVERSITY OF Limerick, runners-up in 2009, registered an opening-round win over St Patrick's, Drumcondra, at Plassey yesterday.
UL’s three goals – courtesy of Thomas Connors and Shane Dooley in the first-half and Matt Ruth nine minutes from time – offset the marvellous scoring contribution made by the St Patrick’s centre forward Marcus Ó hAitrigín, who had a total of seven points and proved a handful for UL’s John Devane of Tipperary.
Ruth’s goal fired UL into a five-point lead heading into the final quarter and the Limerick men were untroubled from then on.
UL: J Dempsey, P Stapleton, C Fogarty, M Verney, K Joyce, J Devane, M Walsh, S Hickey (0-1), B Carroll, N Ó Murchú, R O'Dwyer (0-3), T Connors (1-2), S Dooley (1-0), A Quinn (0-1), M Ruth (1-0). Subs: M Gleeson for S Dooley, M Heffernan for A Quinn, D Burke (0-2, 1 free)for B Carroll, P Murphy for M Ruth, K Fox for M Walsh.
ST PAT'S: E O'Reilly, E Kerins, D Mac an Fhiadóir, A Murphy, R Nolan, P Brennan, S Campion, JJ Farrell (0-1), E Ó Duill, A Cummins, M Ó hAitrigín (0-7, 3 frees, 1 65), P MacEochaidh (0-2), T O'Brien, I Duggan, C Maher. Subs: K Moloney for D Mac an Fhiadóir, A Ó Diarmada for A Cummins.
Referee: Michael O'Connor(Limerick).
