Breaffy knock out champions Westport

Mayo Senior Club Championship

Quarter-Final
Breaffy 1-8
Westport 0-9

DEFENDING champion Westport were sent crashing out of the Mayo SFC at the quarter-final stage by their old nemesis, Breaffy, in front of a big crowd in Islandeady on Sunday afternoon.
The holders finished the game with 13 men after both Fionn McDonagh and Colm Moran were shown red cards in added-time by referee Eamon McAndrew.
Westport also spurned a couple of late chances to bring the game to extra-time with Killian Kilkelly and Alan Kennedy missing frees and the aforementioned McDonagh also off target.
But Breaffy, who were inspired by the O’Shea brothers, Conor and Aidan, were fully deserving of their surprise victory — despite not scoring for the final 20 minutes.
A goal from a penalty by Robbie Fadden in the 15th minute put Konrad Coghill’s team in front for the first time and they led from there to the end.
A couple of brilliant long-range points from Lee Keegan in the second quarter were the pick of Westport’s first half scores, but they were cancelled out by inspirational efforts from Aidan O’Shea and Oisin Tunney.
Breaffy led by 1-5 to 0-6 at the interval and they were still two points up heading into the final quarter as Westport struggled to get into their stride.
Remarkably, neither side managed to score in the last 20 minutes as Breaffy repelled countless Westport attacks and the champions were unable to engineer the scores they needed. In fact, they only scored five points from play in the entire game.
Breaffy will now take on Castlebar Mitchels in the Mayo SFC semi-final in two weeks’ time.

You can read a full report and reaction from all the Mayo club championship quarter-final in Tuesday's edition of The Mayo News.