Doherty leads Glen past Erin's Own into Ulster semi-final

Watty Graham's, Glen (Derry) 0-11 Erin's Own, Cargin (Antrim) 0-07

Glen are through to the semi-final of the Ulster Club Senior Football Championship as the defending champions got the better of Cargin at Celtic Park on Sunday.

The sides met at the semi-final stage last year with Glen five-point winners and they again just had too much for their Antrim rivals as they led for virtually the entire game.

Cargin's cause wasn't helped but he 27th-minute dismissal of Tomás McCann and indeed, Sean O'Neill's blak card in stoppage time in a game that saw 10 cards flashed with Cargin taking five yellows to Glen's three on top of the aforementioned cards in what was a fiesty affair.

While Glen will be happy to have got over this hurdle, they will also not be happy with nine wides that could have seen them make life a little more comfortable against a Cargin side that had no quit in them and were in contention for the most part even though they were unable to make the headway in attack they would have liked.

Glen came flying out of the blocks and Jack Doherty thumped them into the lead within the opening 10 seconds.

He would have the final say of the half from play, in-between times the Derry champions landing another three points from frees - two from Danny Tallon and one by Emmett Bradley.

The defending Ulster champions were off-target with five wides in the opening half, while Paul McCann made a vital block on Eunan Mulholland, but that's not to say Cargin weren't in it.

Pat Shivers got them on the board after seven minutes from a free after Tallon kicked his first and after Tallon replied, Cargin's sole score from play in the opening period came when goalkeeper John McNabb, linking up around the middle, put Paul McCann in for a