Mike O’Halloran watched Ballyduff net a volley of early goals which Causeway could never recover from in the Garveys Supervaly Kerry SHC quarter-final in Austin Stack Park yesterday…

Ballyduff 5-16

Causeway 1-15

The Boyles brothers blitzed Causeway and brought the boys from Ballyduff into the semi-final yesterday.

In my preview of this game I had tipped Ballyduff to come out the right side of this encounter but I didn’t expect the margin to be so huge.

I had spoken of the talent that Causeway have in their ranks, but that talent has had problems with consistency and that lack of consistency was the story again today.

Causeway did show up and were level with a point each after two minutes. Seven minutes later they were on their way out of the championship when they trailed by thirteen points.

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The thirteen point margin was created by four quality goals from John Hussey, Jack Goulding, Liam Boyle and Padraig Boyle.

The halftime score in favour of Ballyduff was 4-11 to 0-5.

Causeway had the wind in the second half and they also had the first two scores from Brandon Barrett and Paul McGrath.

The score of the second half came from Padraig Boyle on fourteen minutes when he took six Causeway men out of the game with sidesteps to drive over a beauty.

After that Causeway had four points without reply from Paul McGrath, Stephen Murphy, Keith Carmody and Jason Leahy.

A goal at the end from Mark Murphy put a better look on the scoreboard, but that’s all it did.

Ballyduff were in total command from beginning to the end, with nearly all their players putting in a serious shift. The same cannot be said for Causeway, apart from Keith Carmody and perhaps Brandon Barrett.

Ballyduff used all their bravery, guile and match craft to put Causeway to the sword.

The Boyles were the stars. Michael at midfield lorded over all he surveyed. Liam at centre forward ran the line and pitched in with scores. Padraig was just magical in his play, even though he was only just returning from injury. Aiden who is out injured was on the line with sensible instructions. Paud Costello was at his ease, at fullback, Eric O’Connor, worked hard.

Ballyduff haven’t gone away and are going to be a force for either Abbeydorney or St Brendan’s.

Ballyduff Scorers: Padraig Boyle 1-09 (7 frees), Jack Goulding 2-01, Liam Boyle 1-02, John Hussey 1-0, Gary O’Brien 0-02, Daniel Carroll 0-01, Eric O’Connor 0-01.

Causeway Scorers: Keith Carmody 0-04, Paul McGrath (3 frees) 0-4, Brandon Barrett 0-3, Mark Murphy 1-0, Stephen Murphy 0-02, Bryan Murphy 01,  Jason Leahy 0-01.