TEEHAN SEES OFF' KINGDOM

GRACE Teehan clinched Intermediate Championship glory for Offaly, with a strong finish to yesterday's final at Croke Park enough to beat Kerry.

- BY DARAGH O CONCHUIR

Offaly 0-14 Kerry 0-11 All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Final

“It wasn't vintage by our own standard, it was a very cagey, nervous sort of game,” said Faithful County manager David Sullivan, who two years ago was Tipperary manager when a similarly tight junior final went Clare's way by 3-7 to 1-9.

Both sides shot their lowest scores of the season in a cagey encounter.

Offaly took more chances, but they also created many more again, racking up 13 wides and five shots dropped short.

Though they never trailed, that left Kerry still close to land a sucker punch. Jackie Horgan and Amy O'Sullivan had the opportunity to deliver that blow midway through the second half, but on a day for defences, it was Offaly’s last line of defence that saved the day.

Emer Reynolds pulled off a superb double save, much to Sullivan's delight.

“Everyone owes her a drink tonight, it was two worldies,” he beamed.