St Brigid's 2-9 Padraig Pearses 0-11: A goal by John Tiernan, his second of the game, with six minutes to go, secured St Brigid's a seventh title at Hyde Park yesterday.
A point for Pearses' Seán Fahy put them ahead after 17 minutes. Four minutes later Tiernan pounced for his first goal. Karol Mannion added a point but Pearses hit back with two from Fahy and one from Niall Finneran to go in level at half-time.
Pearses began the second half impressively with two points by Fahy. St Brigid's captain Brendan O'Brien kicked a quick response and Ian Kilbride landed an equaliser in the 39th minute. O'Brien edged St Brigid's in front but Fahy brought the teams level again with a free after 47 minutes.
The teams were deadlocked seven minutes from the end when Senan Kilbride won a kick-out and found his brother, Ian, who released Tiernan, who drilled the ball to the net.
ST BRIGID'S: S Curran; D O'Connor, D Donnelly, R Kelly; G Aherne, K Noonan, P Kilcommins; M O'Carroll, J Tiernan (2-0); B O'Brien (0-2), D Blaine, I Kilbride (0-1); S Kilbride (0-1, free), K Mannion (0-1), F Dolan (0-3, one free). Subs: B Mannion (0-1) for Aherne (39 mins), E Mannion for Noonan (47 mins), J Kelly for O'Brien (58 mins).
PÁDRAIG PEARSES: T Dolan; J Whyte, D Donnellan, B Flynn; E Barrett, P Kelly, A Fallon; N Finneran (0-2), D Moran; Emmet Egan, D Whyte (0-1), P Kelly; P Moran, S Fahy (0-7, three frees), J Egan. Subs: Eddie Egan for Flynn (42 mins), N Murray (0-1, free) for Whyte.
Referee: P Carney.
