Eglish Survive To Do It All Agaim

Saturday 15.11.2025

 

 

Last-Second Gemma Daly Point Forces Replay for Eglish in Ulster Final Thriller

Eglish are still alive in the Ulster Intermediate race after Gemma Daly levelled the match with literally the final swing of the stick in an epic contest against Crossmaglen. It was a dramatic ending to a superb game of camogie that now heads for a replay.

The Tyrone champions made the perfect start when Reagan Fay opened the scoring with a confidently struck free. But Crossmaglen hit back immediately with three well-taken points from Tina O’Reilly, Megan O’Callaghan and Faye Fitzpatrick.

Eglish settled again when an early effort was blocked out and Rhianne McLoughlin clipped over. Crossmaglen answered through Fitzpatrick before Eglish landed the first major blow, McLoughlin sent in a dangerous ball and Kaitlin Gallagher got the vital touch to hit it to the net.

Points from Oilibhia Farley and Cliodhna Goodfellow pushed Eglish on, and midway through the half Fay produced one of the scores of the game with an outstanding point from a sideline cut.

Eglish then struck their second goal when Goodfellow’s shot was saved and Fay reacted sharply to flick in the rebound, putting Eglish into a two-goal lead.

Crossmaglen, though, were far from finished. Eva Cassidy hit two points, O’Callaghan and Lauren McConville added fine efforts, and O’Reilly and Kellie Shields kept the scoreboard turning. There was some confusion when a McConville point was waved wide but later awarded on the linesman’s advice, only appearing on the scoreboard after half-time.
Half-time: Eglish 2-6 Crossmaglen 0-12.

Eglish introduced Sienna Gildernew, and shortly after they created a glorious goal chance that slid wide of the post. The second half became a blow-for-blow battle. O’Reilly struck for Crossmaglen, Fay landed a brilliant score under intense marking, and then McLoughlin rattled in her second goal to put Eglish back in front.

Crossmaglen answered again with scores from Cassidy, Fitzpatrick and Shields, before O’Reilly floated over one of the scores of the match. Eglish had chances of their own, but a late free dropped short and was cleared.

Shields and O’Reilly fired over big points entering the final minutes. Crossmaglen looked to have stolen it when O’Callaghan sent over a pressure-point in the dying moments.

But Eglish refused to accept defeat. One final chance and substitute Gemma Daly stepped up to nail the equaliser on the last puck of the game.

The replay promises to be another cracker.

Result Eglish 3-10, Crossmaglen 0-19

Eglish

B Horsfield, F Farley, A Donnelly, L Mason, Grace Daly, K Daly, C Gallagher, K Gallagher(1-0), R Fay(1-4), O Farley(0-1), C Muldoon, C Goodfellow (0-2), E Hughes, R McLoughlin(1-1), E Holmes, Gemma Daly(0-1), L Mackin, S Gildernew, G Devlin, S Gildernew, N Donaghy, A Devlin, E McCann, A Byrne, C Mackin, N Daly, G McKenna, A Jordan Donnelly, H Daly, A M Donaghy

 

Crossmaglen: L Duffy, A Bellew, R McConville, C Lenaghan, A McEntee, B O’Brien, C Leneghan, A McMahon(0-1), G Fitzpatrick, T O’Reilly (0-4), F Fitzpatrick(0-3), M O’Callaghan(0-3), K Shields(0-3), L McConville(0-2), E Cassidy (0-3), S Califf, S Hanratty, A McConville, E Duffy, AL Caraher, O Donaldson, R Lenaghan, B O’Neill, D Daly, C McBride, C Conway, A McLoughlin, L Kane, C Britton, E McEntee, H McCoy, C O’Neill, C Murphy, M Gallagher, E McMaho