ROCKMOUNT YOUTHS:
Rockmount, for the second season running, brought off a magnificent
cup and league double in AUL Youths Football. For all that, there was
a tinge of disappointment in the voice of manager Harry Peglar as he
reviewed the season: "We had a great run to the semi-final of the FAI
Youths Cup. But we missed three or four early chances in Dundalk".
That defeat by Rangers finished Rockmount's chances of a national
title but they recovered well to win the Murphy Cup and Barry's Tea
League 1. Two late goals gave them a 3 - 1 win over Mayfield Utd in
the cup final and a brilliantly taken score by leading marksman Kieran
O'Connor saw them finish 3 - 2 winners over main rivals Douglas Hall
in the final game of the league. Rockmount needed just a point to
take the pennant while the Hall needed both.
O'Connor collected 27 goals for the season and the other leading
sharpshooters were Ken Dennehy (24), centre-half Denis McAuliffe (23),
Damien Long (17) and John Hurley (17). In the 35 games played,
Rockmount scored 143 and conceded 25.
Harry has been manager for the past four seasons. His assistant on
the line is John Delea and another man who contributes hugely in this
area is Pat Magic O'Callaghan.
Rockmount panel: Noel Cantwell, Ian O'Connor, Denis McAuliffe,
Philip Hogan (captain), John Busteed, Conor O'Driscoll, John
Hurley, Stephen Long, Kieran O'Shea, Kieran O'Connor, Conor
Twomey, Ken Dennehy, Damien Long, and Keith O'Connell.
Hurley, O'Shea, and O'Driscoll, are schoolboy internationals, while
Cantwell, Hogan, McAuliffe, Busteed, Hurley, O'Driscoll, and Kieran
O'Connor, played for the AUL in this season's inter-league
championship.
The Under 17s came close to making it another double. Under joint
managers Aidan O'Mahony and Eddie Henchion, they won their Hurley's
Supermarkets League One but were pipped by Mayfield United in the
final of the Imperial Hotel League cup.
The Under 17 panel was: Stephen O'Donoghue, Brian Quirke, Ken
Cullinane, Conor O'Driscoll, Colin Deveraux (captain), Pakie O'Connor,
Stephen Hegarty, Shane Power, Brian Lenihan, Kieran O'Shea, Keith
O'Connell, Paul Morey, Ger Freeman, Troy Dwyer, John Burns, and Benny
O'Sullivan.
O'Shea, one the leading scorers here, also played at Youths and Under
16 level where he was part of double winning sides. Only that defeat
by Mayfield robbed him of a most unusual triple double.
end of story
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