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Ballymun Kickhams has claimed his first Dublin senior football title in eight years after demolishing Ballyboden at Parnell Park.
A purple stain in the second quarter was effective for the champions, who had no answer for the rampant northern team.
Having six reps on Dublin’s five-in-a-row panel has been a hindrance to Ballymun’s local ambitions over the years, with their key men exhausted as the season begins, but without the shackles of East County commitments. summer, they finally clicked. in 2020.
In fact, in this performance, they would have to stop if the provincial and all-Ireland club competitions had not been shelved for this season.
It was the second senior county final loss for Ballyboden in the space of a week after they were defeated by Cuala in the decisive pitching game seven days earlier, though both teams’ lone starter Conal Keaney could hardly be faulted as the 38 years old. -the old slotted 0-3 of his miserable account.
The game seemed to be settled in the kind of intense competition that most would have anticipated when the teams shared the first eight points equally after 10 minutes, although there was a little more threat to the game from Ballymun and once they got to the top, trampled by all the champions.
Amazingly, they kicked 0-10 with no response from the 11th minute until halftime.
His move to the front was particularly troublesome for Ballyboden, as Dean Rock in particular and Paddy Small made hay inside.
Boden’s passing was very sloppy at times and his unforced errors were ruthlessly punished over and over again by Ballymun as they swept the field and exploited space in defense of their opponents.
Various kicking failures didn’t help the starters either, while they were more wasteful up front, kicking seven wide to Ballymun’s three in the first half.
That trend continued early in the second half when Alan Flood and Warren Egan missed opening points opportunities to give Ballyboden some kind of foothold, and Ballymun extended their scoring streak to 0-12 with no response through a couple of Dillon Keating points.
Ballyboden finally ended his sterile period with Colm Basquel free in the 45th minute, 35 minutes after his previous score, but the competitive element had run out of the contest at that stage, with Ballymun falling to fourth gear.
They capped the injury time victory with a penalty won by substitute Andrew McCaul and emphatically converted by Rock to miss the 14-point winners.
BALLYMUN KICKHAMS: E Comerford; L Young, E Dolan, P McMahon; C Keeley, J Small, D Conlon; Elliott, J McCarthy; C McCormack, F Andrews (0-4), C O’Tighe (0-1); P Small (0-2, 0-1m), D Keating (0-3), D Rock (1-8, 1-0 pen, 0-1m, 0-3f).
Substitutes: J Whelan (0-1) for O’Tighe (50), A McCaul for Keating (53), Ciaran McManus for McCormack (59), B Ashton for Elliott (60).
BALLYBODEN ST ENDA’S: M McNamee; S Clayton, K Kennedy, C Flaherty; Bobbett B, Nelson D, McDaid R; MD Macauley, A Waters; R McGarry, W Egan, D O’Reilly; C Keaney (0-3), R Basquel (0-3, 0-1f), C Basquel (0-2f).
Subs: D O’Mahony for Bobbett (HT), J Holland for Nelson (HT), A Flood for O’Reilly (HT), S Lambert for C Basquel (50), T Hayes for McGarry (55).
REFEREE: S Farrelly.
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