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Shamrocks ready for the coveted
Championship
31 July 2000 - Shamrocks will bypass dangerous
Championship quarterfinal berths after wins in the
Queensland Gaelic Football League at Willawong over the
weekend.
Brisbane's western suburbs club beat John Mitchels in
both the senior mens and ladies competitions on the
penultimate weekend of League action, before the coveted
knockout Championship starts.
Both team are now certain to advance straight to the semi
final round.
Shamrocks won the senior mens match by four points with
eight individual scorers, inspired by captain Dan Fraser
from Eagleby, and player-coach Steve Talbot of Greenslopes.
Shamrocks won the ladies match by 33 points, with
Australasian representation Louise O'Neill from Forest Lake
showing a polished display at full forward.
Mulligans leading the Shamrocks
spree
 24 July 2000 - County Tyrone
brothers Eoin and Stephen Mulligan (pictured) are
eyeing trophies and setting records with Brisbane's
Shamrocks Gaelic Football club.
The two brothers each scored 3 goals, combining for 6
goals 8 points as Shamrocks beat Queensland's defending
championship winners, East Celts, by 27 points at Willawong
over the weekend.
They are probably the first brothers in the 20-year
history of the Shamrocks club to have both scored a hat
trick of goals in the same game.
Eoin's 3 goals and 6 points is the highest individual
score for Brisbane's western suburbs club since current club
records commenced three years ago, and the 8 goals 14 points
by Shamrocks is the highest senior mens team score.
Eoin Mulligan won the All-Ireland under 21 Championship
Final with County Tyrone back in May. He joined his brother
Stephen at Oxley last month. Both are returning to Ireland
later in the year.
Two weeks remain in the Queensland Gaelic Football League
season, before the coveted knockout Championship commences
which the club has won just once - back in 1995.
Shamrocks enjoyed a clean sweep of their matches against
East Celts over the weekend, winning the Reserve Mens match
by 4 points, and the Ladies by 33 points.
Indooroopilly's Kirsten Geary is improving every week in
her rookie season, finishing with 2 points against Easts.
Fullback leads another strong
win
10 July 2000 - A top-of-the-table clash is next
for Shamrocks after they warmed up with a strong win in the
Queensland Gaelic Football ladies league at Willawong over
the weekend.
Shamrocks defeated Sarsfields by 36 points, with the
scoring led by Forest Lake's Louise O'Neill with 2 goals and
6 points.
However, it was the strong play by Sherwood's Trish
McGirl-Duell running forward from full back that set up the
convincing win for the league leaders.
Just two weeks after the Shamrocks goalkeeper,
Brookfield's Shirley Jensen, came forward to score her first
point, this week full back and team captain Trish
McGirl-Duell went one better by running the length of the
field to score her first goal.
Renee Moynihan from Bardon also made a strong
contribution distributing the ball well, while Michelle
Bullion-Healey of Murarrie gained plenty of possession
across the ground.
This Sunday at Willawong, Shamrocks ladies play Harps
with just four weeks remaining in the league season. The
Shamrocks mens teams have a bye.
All-Ireland winner joins
Shamrocks
 3 July 2000 - A
month after winning the All-Ireland under 21 Championship
Final, Eoin Mulligan starred for the Shamrocks Gaelic
Football club at Willawong over the weekend.
Mulligan scored two of the goals of the season for the
west Brisbane club, to go with five skilful points, but it
wasn't enough as Shamrocks lost to the Queensland
championship favourites by three points.
Mulligan, who played a leading role in County Tyrone's
eight point win over County Limerick in the All-Ireland
Football final at the end of May, has joined his brother
Stephen at the Shamrocks club.
"By the 36th minute, the writing was on the wall, Eoin
Mulligan carving the opening for Brian McGuigan to rattle
the net, after the ball had fallen into his path off a
post," reported the Limerick Leader newspaper from the
All-Ireland final (action pictured above, Tyrone in
white).
Mulligan did the scoring himself for Shamrocks over the
weekend, with both goals coming through strength with three
opposing players draped all over him. He could easily have
added a third that would have tied the game in the closing
minute, but a teammate's shot went wide.
Shamrocks won a thrilling ladies match against Souths
over the weekend by a solitary point scored in the dying
minutes.
A shot on goal by Brookfield's Jacqueline Peacock was
saved, but the ball rebounded into the hands of Joann
O'Neill of Forest Lake, who fired it over for the winning
score.
That was in a match in which Shamrocks defender Michelle
O'Malley from Springwood confidently drove the ball out of
defence time and time again, into the waiting arms of
teammates.
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