At 7.38pm on Thursday the 23rd of June 2005, St Michaels were the only unbeaten club side in the Down League setup. By 8.56pm that same evening, that record was banished to the history books by a confident and skillful Dundrum team who romped home by a goal in an absolute thriller.

   However, from the throw in it looked like this one was going to be mere shooting practice for the Magheralin men. They racked up five excellent scores in the space of thirteen minutes to shock a stuttering Dundrum team.

   It took nineteen minutes of hard hitting action before the homeside registered their first point. This came in the form of a Cormac Venney 14' off the ground. St Michaels replied with a well taken score from Bryan Sweeney but Venney responded with a free. Then with five minutes of action remaining in the half Pat McDade's troops fired over their last of the first period. After this they became over confident and failed to predict any type of a resurgence from the Duns.

  The failure to predict such a comeback led to St Michaels downfall. With three minutes of the half remaining Johnny McMullan rose highest to field a Colm King kickout. A smart shimmy followed which allowed McMullan the time and space to look up and find a man. That man was Neil McLoughlin, who once in possession delivered a pin point pass to Conor McShane who squeezed the ball past Peter Cunningham for a tremendous goal. This was the turning point, possibly even the match winner.

Although still in the lead by a point St Michaels still possessed an air of confidence. However, from the moment that ball was thrown in there was only going to be one winner and that was Dundrum. They seemed untouchable in the second half with Conor McKibben marshalling the defence, Kieran Walsh commanding midfield and Neil McLoughlin orchestrating play in the forwards.

Despite being the better of the two teams in the second period, Dundrum conceded two early scores to leave them trailing by a goal. However, by the end of the end of the first quarter that deficit was cancelled and for the first time in the game the teams were level. Cormac Venney, Kieran Walsh and Johnny McMullan were the scoregetters in what was a frantic period of play.

A Bryan Sweeney effort fifteen minutes in represented St Michael's last point of the game. From this moment on the passion and drive of the Dundrum players coupled with the astute switches made by the management meant that there was no way back for the Magheralin men.

Five consecutive scores from the homeside put six points between the entities. Two points apeice from man of the match Cormac Venney and the ever improving Johnny McMullan were the precursor to a match winning goal from impact sub Cathal Kielty who was the ever grateful recipient of an inch perfect pass from Venney.

Unlike previous games Dundrum fought tooth and nail to the death. Players like Conor McShane rose to the occasion magnificently, throwing every last thing they had at the opposition. This was despite St Michaels getting a quickfire goal which in hindsight was only a consolation strike. Added to this was a courageous goal line clearance from Neil McComiskey which really typified the Duns night

Dundrum: C.King, M.Rooney, C.McKibbin, N.McComiskey, J.McMullan (0-03, 1 Free), N.McLoughlin, J.McKibben, K.Walsh (0-02, 1 '45), A.Doyle, C.McShane (1-00), J.Hurley, M.Melville, C.Venney (0-05, 1 Free, 1 '14), B.Walsh, K.Byrne. Subs: M.Coughlan, C.Kielty (1-00), C.Hogg.