ANNACLONE, beaten finalists in 2005, ran away with the Ladies’ Intermediate Football Championship last Sunday.

They were superbly fit and organised and simply had too much skill and accuracy up front for a gallant Burren defence. Captain Aileen Pyers led the winners’ attack with tremendous guile and positional sense and combined intelligently with Grainne Kelly and Sinead McEvoy to lead Annaclone into a 6-4 to 2-3 half-time lead.

The Annaclone captain scored two further goals in the third quarter and there was simply no way back for a gallant Burren team who had top-class players in Courtney Linden, Niamh McGovern, Shauna Campbell and Grainne McKernan.

Annaclone: Leah Henning, Caroline McCusker, Mary McClorey, Joan Quinn, Mary O’Hare, Roisin McCusker, Ciaran McCusker, Eliza Downey, Ciara McArdle, Grainne Kelly 3-2, Lisa O’Hare 0-2, Caroline Pyers 0-1, Sinead McEvoy 1-1, Aileen Pyers 4-5, Julie Donaghy, Danielle Kerr 0-1.

Burren: Karen McKevitt, Grainne McKernan, Shauna Campbell, Melissa McMahon, Cara Murdoch, Sinead Carty, Helen Cole, Mairead Trainor, Caroline McKay, Courtney Linden, Cathy McGovern 0-1, Niamh McGrath, Niamh McGovern 2-1, Cara Fegan 0-2, Kelly O’Hare.