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Monaghan’s Ciaran McNulty celebrates scoring the winning point after the game. Ryan Byrne/INPHO
Division 1 Football League
Understrength Monaghan down Dublin as Derry hold off Kerry fightback
Monaghan and Derry both won on the road in their Division 1 National Football League openers.
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Monaghan 3-9
Dublin 1-14
UNDERSTRENGTH MONAGHAN MADE light of their losses to record a thrilling Croke Park win over Dublin, Ciaran McNulty emerging as their unlikely gamebreaker.
Substitute McNulty struck an important goal to keep Monaghan in it during a blood and thunder second-half and then snatched the winning point deep into stoppage time.
Derry 0-15
Kerry 2-8
In the end it fell to Shane McGuigan, Derry’s shining attacking light and All-Star for his 2023 exploits, to provide the telling kick on a January Saturday night in Tralee.
McGuigan’s injury-time conversion of a free, awarded after a foul when Magherafelt’s Cormac Murphy had made a driving run forward, proved the critical score in separating Derry from the grasp of hosts Kerry.
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