Louth teams and players keep crashing through barriers in a remarkable 2024. St. Mary's Ardee kept that graph going upwards today after securing a first Leinster senior final place for a Louth club since 2002.
This time it was St. Mary’s Ardee, showing their mettle to defeat St. Loman’s Mullingar by a single point on their own patch at Lakepoint Park this afternoon and set up a first ever Leinster final date for the club.
This year’s decider will be just the fifth time a Louth club has made it that far. The others were Mattock Rangers , Cooley Kickhams and Newtown Blues . It’s no coincidence either as they pushed Kilmacud Crokes hard in last year’s Leinster Championship and are now back to back Louth winners in a county where the standards are rising all the time.But it was more heartbreak for a St. Loman’s side, who lost a Leinster final to Moorefield in a late smash and grab back in 2017 after they’d led by six points.
It was the first time a Louth side had beaten Dublin in Championsip at minor, under-20/21 or senior since 1996.
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