There were great celebrations in east Mayo on Wednesday afternoon, when St Joseph’s Community School in Charlestown claimed victory in the All Ireland Post Primary Schools Post Primary D championship to bring the Br Edmund Ignatius Rice Cup back to Mayo.
They saw off the challenge of Iaelcholaiste Reachnann from Dublin in a hard-fought battle in Longford, winning out on a score of 1-13 to 2-7, with Keelan Horkan kicking 1-8 for the community school side, as they came back from two points down at the turn around.
St. Joseph’s: Declan Forkan, Eoin Beirne, Eoin Kelly, Aiden Hopkins, Conor Dunleavy, Conor O’Donoghue, Conor O’Toole, Thomas Holton, Kieran Sweeney, Keelan Horkan, Cathal Horan, Matthew Lenehan, Padraig Duffy, Cian Craig, Cian McCudden. Subs: Patrick Goldrick, Sean Dunleavy, Gary Horan and John Drudy.
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