Baltinglass booked their place into a fifth Wicklow senior football championship final in six years after dethroning champions Tinahely in Aughrim this afternoon.

It finished 2-16 to 0-13 after extra time at Echelon Park, where Christopher Heaslip’s goal helped to settle the issue in the end for west Wicklow men.

Tommy Keogh’s goal inside four minutes had given last year’s runners up the perfect start to this game and the same player would add a point late in the half to give his side the 1-2 to 0-4 interval lead.

Back-to-back two-pointers from Eoghan Byrne and Rory Stokes would surge Tinahely in front within 10 minutes of the restart ahead of Keogh and county ‘keeper Mark Jackson (‘45’) ushering Baltinglass back into the ascendency.

The latter went back up by two points prior to the scores of Larry Kinsella and Eoin Darcy forcing extra time for the holders, as the scoreboard read 1-9 to 0-12 at full-time, but the extra periods wouldn’t go to script for them with Heaslip’s goal and three more points from the boot of Keogh sealing Baltinglass’s victory.

They now face Carnew Emmets in the county final after they edged out Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney (AGB) by 0-15 to 1-11 in Aughrim yesterday to keep their club’s hopes of a first senior football and hurling championship double since 1973 firmly alive.

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