Goals from Shane Malone and Padraic Keenan helped Corduff to an impressive victory over Swanlinbar in yesterday's AIB Ulster club junior football final at Kingspan/Breffni Park.

Corduff (Monaghan) 2-7
Swanlinbar (Cavan) 0-8

The Monaghan men were the better team throughout and would have won by a bigger margin but for some poor finishing. With Declan Larkin producing a man of the match display from centre back, Corduff never looked back after Malone netted on 17 minutes. Swanlibar, who led after 10 minutes, responded with a couple of points from Gearoid McKiernan, but still trailed by 0-3 to 1-4 at the interval.

The Cavan side reduced the deficit after the restart, but Corduff never lost the lead and made sure of a historic win when substitute Keenan fired home their second goal within a minute of his introduction at the beginning of the final quarter.

Corduff - D Byrne; S McNally snr, C Brennan, B Woods; S McNally jnr, D Larkin, G King; C Connolly, S Connolly (0-1); P Gollogly (0-1), M Mills (0-1), B McNally (0-2, 2f); K McEnaney (0-1), R Byrne (0-1), S Malone (1-0). Subs: P Keenan (1-0), C McEnaney, G Mee

Swanlinbar - G Leydon; T O'Brien, Michael Cunningham, P Prior; D Leydon (0-2), A McGoldrick, P Leydon; M Curran, J Cunningham; C Curran, P McGovern, G McKiernan (0-3); Mark Cunningham (0-2, 2f), K Brennan, R Prior (0-1, 1f).

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