Extra-time penalty sees Glebe North past Ringmahon Rangers

FAI Intermediate Cup final: Glebe North 3 (Coleman 47, O’Shea 61, Waldron 105 pen Ringmahon Rangers 2 (Galvin 1, Ahern 90+2) (AET)

Ringmahon Rangers missed out on lifting their first FAI Intermediate Cup final by losing a five-goal extra-time thriller to Glebe North on Sunday afternoon.

A Reece Waldron penalty on the stroke of the first period ending proved decisive as the Cork side couldn’t muster another late equaliser to force a penalty shoot-out.

Substitute Aaron Ahern has earned Ringers an extra-time lifeline by hooking the ball home two minutes into stoppage time to make it 2-2.

Second half Glebe goals by Ryan O’Shea and Oisin Coleman had overturned the deficit they faced at the interval through Evan Galvin’s first-minute breakthrough.

Winning the toss for home advantage offered Balbriggan-based Glebe the chance of filling their side of Drogheda’s Weavers Park but it was the red and black dominated main stand – with boxer Spike O’Sullivan among their masses – who were first to find their voice.

Just 55 seconds were clocked when Galvin slipped in at the back post to stoop low and apply a diving header to a teasing right-wing cross.

Issa Kargbo was inches from adding a second midway through the half, receiving a crossfield pass from his fellow winger Galvin, only to smack his angled shot off the post.

Waldron had threatened for Glebe by forcing Eric Grimes into a save which he spilled but the Ringers were still comfortable leaders at the break.

That all changed through another goal within a minute of tip-off. Former Dundalk talent Coleman had endured a quiet first-half for the Leinster Senior League outfit but came alive when the ball was squared across the goalmouth for him to sidefoot home the equaliser