Glen goal ace Doherty hails 'best moment of his career'

Alex Doherty hailed Glen Watty Graham's Ulster club senior football final victory over Kilcoo as the 'best moment of his football career’ after his goal helped the Derry side to their first every provincial title.

In a rematch of last year’s semi-final Glen claimed a measure of revenge over reigning All-Ireland champions Kilcoo with a dominant display that saw them lead throughout as theyclaimed a 1-12 to 1-06 victory.

Doherty sealed an impressive performance with the game’s only goal late on, ensuring that his side march on to the All-Ireland semi-finals.

Afterwards Doherty struggled to describe the depth of emotion that came with his club's first ever Ulster senior title.

"It’s probably the best day the club has had in its history, the first Ulster title," he told RTÉ Sport. "It’s unbelievable, I can’t even put it into words, it’s some buzz.

"Someone said to me we were leading the whole way through and it sort of felt like that, we way playing the better of the two teams.

"We know what Kilcoo are made of, they’re All-Ireland champions for a reason and it’s always going to be nip and tuck the whole way through.

"I thought we played class and in the second-half, really upped our level and finished it out strongly."

Reflecting on his goal, Doherty admitted that he didn’t actually see the ball cross the line as he had already turned away to celebrate.

"All I remember is Jack [Doherty] laying off to Conlath [McGuikian] and Conlath flicking it over the top and then I looked at the ‘keeper and he took a step back so I got it and went around him and I kicked it, I didn’t even look at it going into the net.

"At that point I knew the game was over and I just went nuts.

"It was euphoric almost, I think I must have roared five or six times –