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2008 Conway Cup secured with win over Tir Chonaill Gaels (Saturday 30-May-2009)
 Fulham Irish 2-06 Tir Chonaill Gaels 0-08
With both teams missing quite a few of their regulars, Tir Chonaill Gaels and Fulham irish served up another tough battle as the 2008 series of competitions were completed with Fulham Irish securing their 3rd trophy of the 2008 campaign.
Starting with the assistance of the strong breeze, Fulham Irish registered a point after 13 seconds from Kevin McElroy. This was quickly followed by points from Noel Nicholson and Roger Morgan. Tir Chonaill Gaels launched their first attack in the 5th minute but Mark Alcorn's effort drifted well wide. A couple of bad misses followed before Barry McCaffrey extended the lead following good work by Edward O'Hare and Kevin McElroy. Tir Chonaill Gaels got on the score sheet for the first time in the 12th minute, a point by Martin Sweeney. James Bonner followed up with another point for the Greenford men.
The possession wasted by the Fulham Irish lads through the rest of the half was only punctuated by a goal from Diarmaid Maher. A free played in by Quinn was flicked to the net by Maher, leaving the score 1-04 to 0-02 at the interval.
Now playing with the wind and their tails up at being still in the game, Tir Chonaill Gaels started the half strongly with Kevin McMenamin firing over a point in the 3rd minute of the half. Alcorn followed up with a pair of points to reduce the arrears to 2 points. Fulham Irish were now playing plenty of football as the worked the ball up field. Their first reward of the half came when Harry Murphy drilled over a fine point. Tir Chonaill continued to pile the pressure on but a combination of good defending and poor finishing saw them convert 2 from 9 chances created, the points coming from McMenamin and JP O'Donnell to reduce the arrears to 1 point with 5 minutes remaining.
The 25th minute of the half proved the crucial moment when a move started by Eamon O Cuiv, saw the ball move slickly up field with O Cuiv and Quinn involved all the way before Quinn finished an exquisite move to the net. Points were exchanged between McMenamin and Quinn before the final whistle blew.
As well as those mentioned, Derek Sheridan, Gary O'Hare, Eoin Davis, Andrew Davidson, Mark McElroy and Brian O'Reilly had good games for Fulham Irish while Conor Beirne, Ronan Walsh and Kevin McFadden played well for Tir Chonaill Gaels.
Team: D Sheridan, G O'Hare, E O Cuiv, E Davis, E O'Hare, R Morgan, H Murphy, M McElroy(B Basquille), A Davidson, B O'Reilly, B Quinn, D Maher, N Nicholson, B McCaffrey, K McElroy
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