HIGHLIGHTS | Limerick and Leitrim share the spoils after thriller in Ladies National Football League

After looking down and out in the first half, Limerick staged a remarkable comeback and fell just short of maintaining their 100% start to the League.

Limerick and Leitrim were forced to share the spoils after a cracking game of football in the third round of Division 4 of the Lidl National Ladies Football League in the Bog Garden.

Iris Kenneally looked to have won the game for Limerick as she hit 2-2 on her introduction to complete their comeback but scores from the visitors down the stretch sealed the 4-9 to 1-18 draw.

Leitrim had led by as many as ten points in the second half before Limerick staged their comeback.

The sides exchanged the opening four scores, Karen O’Leary with the first for Limerick before Amy Curtin reestablished their lead.

A run of nine successive Leitrim scores followed in the next fifteen minutes, Michelle Guckian, Leah Fox, Ailbhe Clancy and Laura O’Dowd all getting off the mark.

Laoise Brown stemmed the tide with the first goal of the game, hitting the roof of the net following a Deborah Murphy delivery into the Leitrim area.

But the visitors with the aid of the elements hit back with four unanswered, Guckian twice finding the target with Fox rounding out the first half scoring with the point of the afternoon.

That left it at 1-2 to 0-14 in Leitrim’s favour at the turn of ends.

Guckian kicked off the second half scoring from a placed ball. But Limerick hit back with 1-2 on the trot O’Leary and Roisin Ambrose firing over while Andrea O’Sullivan hit the net.

That goal was cancelled out by the Connacht outfit with more brilliant work from Fox being rewarded as Guckian goaled after being set through by the full forward.

A quickfire double from Brown had the game back to six points. Guckian briefly extended the lead before Iris Kenneally raised her first green flag of the day after being feed through by Murphy and the deficit was 3-7 to 1-16 with ten to play.

Two exceptional points from the boot of the Old Mill star then had the teams within one just three minutes later. Kenneally completed the comeback for Limerick, slotting into the corner of the net from the next attack to give Limerick their first lead since the sixth minute. But a pair unanswered from Leitrim down the stretch ensured parity.

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