This might have been a comfortable win for Derry but it came at a high price at Ballinascreen yesterday. A county not overly blessed with scoring forwards lost Eoin Bradley to a broken leg after six minutes and his elder brother Paddy to a red card in the second half. It looks like the younger Bradley will be out for a year while the elder of the Glenullin players will miss the first month of the National Football League through suspension.

Jordanstown didn't emerge unscathed either. Finian Moriarty was red-carded for the challenge that caused Eoin Bradley's injury, while Peter Donnelly was sent off with Paddy Bradley after the pair engaged in what looked no worse than the proverbial handbags 10 minutes into the second half.

The game was otherwise unremarkable. Derry were in control, though it wasn't until the closing minutes of the first half that four points from Ciarán Mullan, two from Conleth Gilligan and one from Paddy Bradley made the half-time score 0-7 to 0-4.

With 14 men against 13, Derry revelled in the extra space, McGonigle showing his full range of tricks and adding 1-2 as Mickey Moran's side cruised to victory.

DERRY: B Gillis; C McWilliams, N McCusker, K McCloy; P Wilson, SM Lockhart, P Kelly; E Muldoon (0-1), J Bradley; F Doherty (0-1), C Gilligan (0-3), C Moran (0-2); E Bradley, J Donaghy, C Mullan (0-5, three frees). Subs: P Bradley (0-3, two frees) for E Bradley, G McGonigle (1-2) for Donaghy, K McGuckin for McWilliams, F McEldowney for J Bradley, C O'Brien for Moran.

UUJ: J Devine; F Moriarty, P Donnelly, M Quinn; C Collins, K McCrory, P O'Farrell; D Sheerin, D Canning; R Convery, S O'Neill, J Sugrue (0-1, free); M Rafferty, S Cavanagh (0-1, free), S King (0-3, three frees). Subs: J Conlon for Convery, R Gallagher for Sugrue, C Farrell for Quinn, D Carlin for O'Neill.

Referee: N Calvert (Monaghan).