All Britain Junior Football Shield Final

Hertfordshire 3-11 Yorkshire 1-3

For the first time in 100 years, Gaelic football was played in Croke Park, the Frongoch venue so named by Irish Internees following the 1916 rebellion.

The fixture was the Provincial Junior Football Shield Final, with Hertfordshire prevailing as comfortable winners over a youthful Yorkshire on a 3-11 to 1-3 score line.

Hertfordshire established early supremacy, moving the ball quickly into the full forward line where team captain Mark Ryan ruled the roost. His early goal, following points from the industrious Piers McGlynn gave the men in green a platform from which they went on tho dominate the first half, scoring 1-8 and restricting Yorkshire to a solitary point.

The second half saw a brief comeback from Yorkshire. A goal from The impressive Jack Day wasn't enough to derail the more experienced Herts men who added further goals from McGlynn and Sean McGonigle to seal an impressive victory.

GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail presented Mark Ryan with the newly commissioned Wolfe Tone Cup to Mark Ryan to end what was a special and emotional day for everyone present.