December 6th 1998 will live long in the memories of everyone in Newmarket. Its been 10 years since that great day, and to mark the occasion NewmarketGAA.com will be posting the reports from all the championship games in 1998.

Starting on Sunday we will post a report on the Kiskeam game, followed by the other Duhallow championship games. On Wednesday we will have the game against Crosshaven, when Newmarket played in Meelin jerseys. Then it will be the 2 games against Brian Dillons. Finally on Saturday December 6th 2008, 10 years after the match, we will post the report from the final itself, played before 10,000 spectators in Charleville.

Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, December 11th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Glory day for Newmarket. Duhallow side regain county junior football title after a lapse of 28 years with superb victory over young Killavullen selection.

NEWMARKET regained the county junior football championship title after a lapse of 28 years, their only previous victory having been in 1970, when they overcame a mighty challenge from Killavullen in a great final at Charleville on Sunday.

It was a game of fast, vigorous football that throbbed with life from start to finish as two fine teams battled it out for the title.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, November 27th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

First half avalanche of scores scupper Brian Dillons’ hopes in county junior football semi-final replay.

A marvelous first-half display set Newmarket firmly on course for an impressive victory over Brian Dillon’s, the city champions, in the replay of their junior football championship semi-final at Kilmurry on Sunday.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, November 20th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Newmarket to face Brian Dillons again after disappointing junior football draw

NEWMARKET and Brian Dillons will have to meet again this Sunday in Kilmurry in the replay of the Co JAFC semi-final.

On Sunday last in dramatic circumstances Brian Dillons, with a late rally, forced the equalising point that has now led to next Sunday’s replay and the postponement of the final. The game never reached the heights expected and the number of wides kicked by both sides was enormous when one considers there was no wind. The game was played in dry, calm, heavy conditions.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, November 13th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Newmarket stroll past Crosshaven in physical junior football quarter-Final

Newmarket qualified to meet city champions, Brian Dillons, in the county junior football championship when they scored a decisive victory over Crosshaven, the Carrigdhoun representatives in a tough contest at Glantane on Saturday.

The final score might suggest that this was an easy canter for Newmarket but far from it. They were by far the more accomplished side all through and had the game more or less sewn up by half-time when they led by 1-6 to 0-1 but Crosshaven were a physically strong, hard tackling side who played with great vigour and certainly left the Duhallow champions aware that they had been in a game.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, October 23th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Newmarket take title in thriller

NEWMARKET won their eighth Duhallow football title, and their first since 1993, when they beat Millstreet by a point in a thrilling final at Banteer on Sunday.

The closing stages were packed with drama when Millstreet cut the margin to the minimum with two minutes of ordinary time left, and battled unavailingly for the equaliser in the remaining five minutes of play, with three minutes of injury time being played.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, October 16th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Newmarket qualified to meet Millstreet in the Duhallow football final, when a late goal proved crucial in their two point victory over Kanturk in a thrilling semi-final played before a big attendance (gate receipts £4,020) at Boherbue on Sunday.

The goal came a minute before the end of normal time, when Michael Cottrell took the ball on a solo run through the Kanturk defence before giving goalkeeper Colman Lane no chance with a shot from close range.

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Original Report: The Corkman, Friday, August 14th, 1998.

By John Joe Brosnan.

Culloty inspires Newmarket to victory.

Strong finish ends Kiskeam’s reign as Duhallow junior football champions.

NEWMARKET qualified for the semi-final of the Duhallow junior football championship when a strong finish took them to victory over reigning champions Kiskeam in a hard-fought game played before a big attendance at Kanturk on Sunday.

Kiskeam led by a point with a quarter of an hour to go, but from then on Newmarket were the dominant side, shooting seven points to Kiskeam’s two to win by a four-point margin.

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