Tulsk turn tables on Dominic’s to reach intermediate football final
Manager Liam McNeill has guided Tulsk Lord Edwards to their first intermediate football championship final since winning the competition in 2019. Picture: Bernie O'Farrell
Tulsk avenged their four-point defeat against St. Dominic’s in the group stages of this year’s McNulty’s Furniture Intermediate Football Championship to reach this year’s decider in three weeks’ time after a two-point victory against their Knockcroghery-based rivals in Lisnamult on Saturday evening.
Liam McNeill’s side will play Éire Óg or St. Michael’s in the final, and they look primed for that encounter after their exciting 2-13 to 0-17 victory at the home of Roscommon Gaels GAA Club.
A red card for St. Dominic’s forward, Daire Keenan, was one of the game’s major talking points, but Anthony Kelly’s side — inspired by the introduction of Cian Duggan — were still able to mount a stirring second-half comeback that just fell short.
Tulsk’s first-half performance ultimately decided the outcome.
Two Ruairí Kilcline points enabled Dominic’s to establish an early three-point buffer but Thomas O’Rourke’s tenth minute goal got the winners motoring.
Dominic’s evening didn’t improve when Keenan received his marching orders moments after a point from Dylan Gaughan.
Tulsk took over and went 1-9 to 0-5 ahead at the break, with O’Rourke’s lucrative haul of 1-3 central to that prosperity on the scoreboard, not to mention the platform laid by Gaughan, Evan Flynn and Padraig Scott in the half-back line.
A goal from Gavin Gallaghan moved Tulsk even further ahead, but the introduction of Cian Duggan ignited a Dominic’s comeback — the Roscommon CBS All-Ireland Colleges’ winner hitting 0-9 in the second-half, including four two-pointers (two from play and two from frees).
In the game’s dying embers, the margin was down to a point, but Evan Flynn’s late score ensured Tulsk were back in their first final since winning the competition in 2019.
Tom O'Rourke weaves through the St. Dominics defence before rattling the back of the net🤩🔥
— Clubber (@clubber) October 3, 2026
Brilliant team goal by Tulsk Lord Edwards@TulskGAA | #ClubberTV 📺 pic.twitter.com/JXwnEeAfnU
