Spa 1-9 Firies 5-9

Hard luck to our senior ladies today in the Junior A Championship. Firies were the stronger team on the day and best of luck to them in the semi final. This was the last game for our ladies in 2022.

Our senior players had home advantage after finishing first in their group. We knew Firies would be very strong with three Kerry Senior players on the panel. We unfortunately were belt a blow when two of our star forwards Saoirse Kelly and Sarah Fleming were out of the starting 15 due to injury. However, management restructured the team and did what they did all year was go out and leave it all on the pitch.

Spa started strong and held their own but some superb goals by Firies sank our dreams of the next round early on. We were very unlucky with some near misses but it just wasn’t our day. Mags Cronin slotted one between the posts late in the second half to narrow the deficit but the gap was too wide and Firies deserved their victory in Spa. We bow out of the championship for 2022 but the girls and management can hold their heads up high as they performed magnificinetly all year. This was relatively a new team with some new, regular and welcome back faces. Manager Ann Marie Hickey, along with her selectors Timmy Fleming, Emma Daly and Thomas Daly have done a tremendous job with the girls in their first year and hopefully can build stronger for 2023.