Sligo Senior Football Championship 1988

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Sligo Senior Football Championship 1988
Sligo Champions St. Patrick's, Dromard(6th win)
Winning captain Seamus Reilly
Winning manager James Kearins
Relegated team(s) Easkey
Promoted team(s) Tourlestrane

This is a round-up of the 1988 Sligo Senior Football Championship. St. Patrick's, Dromard regained the Owen B. Hunt Cup after a fourteen-year wait, and it was a hard-earned title, having defeated the two leading lights of the 1980s - holders St. Mary's and Tubbercurry. St. Mary's were seen off emphatically after a quarter-final replay, bringing the curtain down on s remarkable era for the Sligo town club, and the Dromard side defeated Tubbercurry by a single point in the final.

Contents

[edit] First Round

Game Date Venue Team A Score Team B Score
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Ballymote Tubbercurry 2-8 Curry 1-7
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Ballymote St. Nathy’s 1-9 Geevagh 0-7
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Markievicz Park Innisfree Gaels 0-5 Owenmore Gaels/Coolera 0-5
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Markievicz Park St. Pat’s 2-14 Grange/Cliffoney/Maugherow 1-5
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Tubbercurry Enniscrone/Castleconnor 0-11 Tourlestrane/Cloonacool 1-6
Sligo SFC
First Round
July 10 Tubbercurry Eastern Harps 2-12 Easkey 2-2
Sligo SFC
First Round Replay
July 17 Markievicz Park Innisfree Gaels 0-9 Owenmore Gaels/Coolera 0-5

[edit] Quarter Finals

Game Date Venue Team A Score Team B Score
Sligo SFC
Quarter Final
July 31 Markievicz Park Tubbercurry 2-10 Enniscrone/Castleconnor 1-5
Sligo SFC
Quarter Final
July 31 Tubbercurry St. Nathy’s 0-11 Innisfree Gaels 0-7
Sligo SFC
Quarter Final
July 31 Ballymote Eastern Harps 3-6 Shamrock Gaels 2-6
Sligo SFC
Quarter Final
July 31 Ballymote St. Patrick’s 0-9 St. Mary’s 2-3
Sligo SFC
Quarter Final Replay
August 7 Ballymote St. Patrick’s 1-14 St. Mary’s 0-6

[edit] Semi-Finals

Game Date Venue Team A Score Team B Score
Sligo SFC
Semi-Final
August 28 Ballymote Tubbercurry 0-9 St. Nathy’s 0-7
Sligo SFC
Semi-Final
August 28 Ballymote St. Patrick’s 0-8 Eastern Harps 0-6

[edit] Sligo Senior Football Championship Final

St. Patrick's
2-6 - 0-11
(final score after 60 minutes)
Tubbercurry

Team:
S. Clarke
J. Kilcullen
D. Foley
J. Kiely
T. Kilgallon
P. Kilgallon
J. Dorran
G. Boland (1-0)
T. Mahon (0-2)
T. Clarke (0-1)
S. Reilly (Capt)
O. Cavanagh
J. Clarke
J. Kearins (1-2)
N. Kearins (0-1)


Substitutes:
B. Flynn
L. Boland

Half-time:
1-3 - 0-5

Competition:
Sligo Senior Football Championship
(Final)

Date:
September 11, 1988

Venue:
Corran Park, Ballymote

Referee:
Francis Finan (Coolera/Strandhill)


Team:
P. Kilcoyne
J. Stenson
G. Gilmartin
T. Killoran
L. Gilmartin
O. Wynne
P. Gilmartin
E. Gilmartin
J. Murphy
P. Regan
B. Kilcoyne (0-3)
P. Seevers (0-7)
R. McCarrick
D. Leen
M. Curran


Substitutes:
S. Gallagher
N. Killoran (0-1)

[edit] References

  • Sligo Champion (July-September 1988)

[edit] External links