Longwood brought the curtain down on their 2025 league campaign with a comprehensive away win over St Ultan’s on Sunday morning.

While still missing a few key players, the Longwood team had a more experienced look to it than in the earlier rounds of the league.  This experience was needed as the concession of two early goals could have rocked a lesser team.

The men in white refused to panic and a Sean Sheridan two-pointer proved to be a good settler.  This was quickly followed by a brace of Ryan Moore points and an Adrian Maguire goal and Longwood were now very much in command.  They bossed the remainder of the opening half with Sheridan adding a second goal which meant they took a 2-7 to 2-4 lead to the interval.

An excellent point from Damien Healy extended the lead to four points and Longwood were able to control proceedings during an impressive third quarter.  Two clinical finishes from Sean Coloe pushed the lead out to twelve points with fourteen minutes left to play.  With an eye on the opening round of the senior hurling championship in just four days time, Longwood withdrew a number of players and inevitably St Ultan’s mustered a late challenge, tagging on a number of scores without ever really threatening the outcome.

Longwood: Kevin Maguire, Sean Carpenter, Bob Maguire, Dominic Finnegan (0-1), Cian O’Sullivan, Mickey Burke (0-1) Tomás O’Brien, Harry Hogan (0-1), Sean Coloe (2-1), Ryan Moore (0-3), Ciaran Sheridan, Sean Sheridan (1-3), Niall Mulvey, Damien Healy (0-1), Adrian Maguire (1-0) Subs: Harry Leigh for Moore, Conor M Dixon for Burke, Josh Meagher for Healy.

So the footballers can now focus on championship preparations over the coming weeks.  Our dual players must immediately switch their attention to the small ball, a battle with Kildalkey looms on the horizon this Thursday evening in Trim.