A calm reminder of who they were doing for was the gist of the dressing room half-time talk that preceded Ballymacelligott’s outstanding second-half display. There was no roaring or shouting, it was all very simple, like, and I think they came out in the second half and they showed what they can do, like. “We probably left them back into the game, so we just had a chat, we said, just do what we've done in the first five minutes, if we can just bring that to the second half. “He dislocated his elbow,” reported Blake. Like, he wouldn't come off.”Midfielder Darragh Broderick was also in serious pain after a first-half collision with Barry McKenna but endured.

Source: Irish Examiner January 11, 2026 16:30 UTC