St Brigid’s made the hasty journey to St Pauls to play the north Down lads in a challenge game with a panel of 22 players. First out of the blocks were the home team and they pinned the blues into their own half for the first 6 minutes and took the lead through a long range free. Eventually Peter Mooney, who was making his season debut after a long injury lay off, opened the scoring for the visitors and a mini purple patch saw the Biddies add on some well worked scores. The half time score of 6 pts each, reflected the rusty nature of the hosts and the visitors, who had a useful returnee in Gareth Cullen, who was playing himself into being one of the dominant players on the park.
Mulvenna, McGrath, and Mackle were to the fore in defence and once Ben Leonard and Cathal Conway imposed themselves in the second half in the midfield, the flow of ball to an improving Finnegan and Gildea meant the scoreboard was ticking over. A long list of wides meant coaches Gildea, Conway and Quinn were pulling their hair out. Fortune went St Brigids way when a ball dropped into the net from a lobbed kick from James Gildea. The game ended with all subs getting a good run out.
Men of the match were Peter Mooney and Gareth Cullen
