Dan the man on fire as Moorefield defeat Confey in Aldridge Cup

Moorefield 4-10

Confey 1-5

On a day Moorefield unveiled their ambitious development plans, their senior footballers got their season off to a winning start with a comfortable win over Confey at Moorefield headquarters.

Four goals is a great return any day of the week and with two in each half this game was well over long before the final whistle arrived on a day certainly not conducive to good football.

Nevertheless there was some decent scoring and with Moorefield's new man, Cork native Dan O'Callaghan finding the net twice it was certainly a fine start from the school master.

Evan O'Brien got the score under way with a point; Mark Murray added another before O'Callaghan got the first of his goals, following a long ball in, Adam Sweeney knocked it down to O'Callaghan who palmed to the net.

Brian Kane and Brian Grimes, Imad Mirza and Ciaran Lyons got Confey's four points in the opening half but once Moorefield got their second goal the writing was on the wall with the home side leading the break 2-4 to 0-4.

As the weather deteriorated in the second half, Moorefield continued to dominate and added two more goals, a second from

Dan O'Callaghan and one from Adam Sweeney and while Confey raised a green flag from Brian Kane, the result was never in doubt and in the end the home side opened their account for new manager, Frank Hanafin, on a score line of Moorefield 4-9 Confey 1-5.

Scorers: Moorefield, Dan O'Callaghan 2-1, Evan O'Brien 1-2, Adam Sweeney 1-0, Gary Redmond 0-2 (1 free), Adam Tyrrell 0-2, Mark Murray 0-1, Aaron Martin 0-1, James Murray 0-1.

Confey, Brian Keane 1-1, Brian Grimes 0-1 (free), Imad Mirza 0-1, Ciaran Lyons 0-1, Paul Divilly 0-1.

MOOREFIELD: Tom Kinsella; Dylan Cosgrave, Liam Healy, Liam Callaghan; Padraig Cribben, Cian Moore, Harry O'Connor; Jake Delmer, Anthony Durney; Liam McDermott, Mark Murray, Adam Tyrrell; Adam Sweeney, Dan O'Callaghan, Evan O'Brien. Subs used, James Murray, Adam O'Brien, Brendan Reddy, James Murray, Craig Buckley, Aaron Martin.

CONFEY: Colin Heeney; Andrew Breslin, Colm Chan, Ben Hourihane; Aidan Ryan, Kieran Kilbane, Aidan Crean; Paul Divilly, Ciaran Lyons; Brian Grimes, Josh Collins, Sean Loughlin, Brian Kane, Imad Mirza, Neil Ryan.

REFEREE: Anthony Herbert.