Seaford ended their season with a sensational comeback win to haul themselves out of the relegation zone and leave the visitors in big trouble.

Baz Kirwan's men started brightly but found themselves behind on 13 minutes, as the first Newbridge attack finished with a clinical outcome: playmaker Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun laid in winger Destiny Asemota, who smashed it home.

Unbowed, the Penguins continued to make the running. Jamie McCaul headed just wide from a Greg Hughes cross, and then Danny Walsh almost caught out keeper Brady Adams with a clever effort, but it bounced off the post.  Walsh then met Jack Keegan's corner with a powerful header, but it was just wide.

And then, another sucker=punch. Aaron Donohoe whipped in a free kick, and Jack Foley Donohoe buried it.

With their season slipping out of their grasp, Seaford needed a huge response. It began when Rory Carberry made a barnstorming run upfield from right back before being hauled down on the edge of the box. Keegan slotted the free kick as nervelessly as he despatches his penalties - an inch-perfect finish into the bottom corner.

Trailing at the break despite having the better of the play, the Penguins needed a massive display to save their campaign. Daniel Mac Dermott set the tone, dominating the midfield area and driving the team forward.

The pressure ratcheted up, and finally the equaliser arrived. From Keegan's delivery, Alan McGeady attacked the near post like Keane in Turin, and found the back of the net.

But only a win would do for Seaford. Keegan produced a clever back-heel to put Walsh through, but under pressure from defenders, he wasn't able to apply the finish. But the big striker grabbed the crucial goal with ten to play, sliding in to convert at the back post after a brilliant run and cross from Zitian Xiang.

Raucous celebrations, but the job wasn't done. Fighting for their lives, Seaford hassled and harried Newbridge all over the pitch, forcing the Kildare men backwards. Substitute Shane Halpin had a couple of sights at goal but couldn't find the net. Five minutes stoppage time became six and then seven, until finally the whistle blew.

The three points lift Seaford off the bottom of the table for the first time in months, meaning Newbridge need to beat champions Montpelier in their final match to avoid the drop.

Seaford:  Fionn McLoughlin, Rory Carberry, Zitian Xiang, Fionn Geoghegan, (Shane Halpin, 75), Alan McGeady, Daniel Mac Dermott, Greg Hughes, Jack Keegan, Conor Fennell (Niall Holleran, 85), Jamie McCaul (Eoin O'Farrell, 90+3), Danny Walsh (Desmond Eiffe, 90+5)

Newbridge Town: 1 Brady Adams, 2 Jack Ralph, 4 Darijus Peveraitis, 5 Adam McHugh, 6 Aaron Donohoe, 7 Airidas Peveraitis, 8 Ben Shanahan, 9 Jack Foley Donohoe, 10 Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun, 17 Maxwell Maina, 18 Destiny Asemota. Subs: 12 Aidan Prestreshi, 13 Samuel Mchivga, 14 Alexander Minihan, 15 Elijah Emmanuel

Seaford produced a lion-hearted performance but exited the FAI Junior Cup after being edged out in  extra time at Brickfield Park.

It was a dream start for the Penguins, who led inside three minutes through  Ryan Scollard, as the prolific striker pounced on Eoin Fitzpatrick’s undercooked backpass to skip around  Javier Zumárraga and finished with his left. 

2 almost redeemed himself when he arrived at the back post to attack Shane Jenkinson’s cross but headed just over. The visitors maintained a threat on the break. Midfield schemer Thomas Murphy started .many of the moves and almost finished ones his 20 yard piledriver was comfortably dealt with by Zumárraga   

Bosco’s dangerman Alex Taaffe almost leveled halfway through the opening period , but blazed over after cleverly working a yard. But the same man made no mistake on 31, smashing an unstoppable shot past Oisin Geoghegan after being put in by Michael Eustace’s clever scoop. 

If Seaford had spent much of the first balcony fhe back foot, it was a different story after the break as they showed more attacking threat. Scollard ought to have bagged his second of the night when Jamie Cogan diverted Murphy’s cross into his path, but the usually nerveless marksman smashed his shot wide with Zumárraga ​ out of this goal .  

Despite piling on late pressure , the visitors  couldn’t quite get the win in 90 and when the game resumed for extra time, Bosco flew out of the traps. In the first minute, Derek Lawlor cracked the underside of the crossbar with a ferocious strike , and shortly after they produced a moment of class to secure what proved to be the winner, as Ian O’Brian raced on to Lawlor’s throughball and slotted home via the far post. 

The Penguins surged foresee and were left wondering how ok earth they couldn’t force the ball in.  Ian Daly set MJ Tierney for a violent left-footed volley which would have burst the net but for a defender’s desperate lunch, and then Zumárraga somehow clawed  a Tierney corner out of by he top corner of his bet, before first Daly and then Brian Murphy had goalbound efforts blocked on the line. Even Sam Browne, surged forward from the back towrads the end and let go of a rasping striker off his left, but it was just off target.

A proud evening for the club but it just wasn’t Seaford’s day, Alan Burns’s men now focus on seeing out their remaining two league matches of what has been an energy-sapping season .

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche (Fionn Geoghegan, 45+1) , Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne, Al Kennedy, Ben Kelly, (MJ Tierney, 78) Thomas Murphy, Ian Daly Jack Keegan (Greg Hughes, 90+1) Jamie McCaul, Ryan Scollard

St John Bosco: 1 Javier Zumárraga, 2 Eoin Fitzpatrick, 3 Shane Jenkinson, 4 Jamie Cogan, 5 Joseph Mc Glue, 6 Vicente Adrain Alferez Diaz, 7 Michael Eustace, 8 Daniel Cully Beakhurst, 9 Alex Taaffe,  10 Derek Lawlor, 11 Ian O'Brien. Subs: 12 Dean Blood, 13 Sean McGuigan, 14 Gareth Byrne, 15 Scott Taaffe, 18 Mark Sandford

 Seaford secured their place in Major 1 with five games to spare with a second handsome win over Maynooth in the space of seven days, in a match that will be remembered for the great Ryan Scollard bringing up a century of goals for the club.. 

The match followed a similar pattern to the sides' previous clash in Blackrock a week prior, with Seaford comfortably dominating proceedings before half-time, before suffering a brief wobble early in the second period, and then re-establishing superiority. towards the end.

Scollard had to wait until the last kick of the game to record his landmark goal, but it would have been a lot sooner but for Corey McKeon in goals for the hosts, who made a brilliat save to deny Scollard's header on 14, making up for his own mistake after Rob O'Shea 
​had nicked hte ball off him before crossing in.

Instead it was Sam Browne who broke the deadlock, nodding home his sixth of the season after Scollard had flicked on Craig Conlon's corner..

Then the visitors gifted Seaford two quick goals in as many minutes. First, defender Ryan Moran concede possession to Fionn Nally, who did brilliantly to finish from a tight angle with his left, before McKeon let O'Shea's tame shot slip under him and into the het. 

It was 0-4 on the stroke of half-time as Scollard ran on to a long ball forward from keeper, Oisin Geoghegan and then teed to Nally for an easy finish.

But just as they'd done a weak earlier, Seaford let Maynooth back into the game witha  calamitous start to the second half. James Kelly headed home a free kick on 47 minutes, and then Ethan Hennessy punished Browne's error to make it 2-4 just four minutes into the second half. 

The Penguins' boat was rocking now and, despite dominating possession, they were struggling to generate much forward momentum. The crucial fifth goal arrived 20 minutes into the second half, as O'Shea completed a slick attack by receiving a perfectly weighted Jack Keegan pass and rounding McKeon for 5-2.

Scollard lashed home a free-kick in stoppage time for his big goal, meaning that Seaford are all-but mathematically safe for another campaign.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Rory Carberry, Brian Murphy (Zitian Xiang, 72),, Sam Browne, Eoin Mahon (Alan McGeady, 72), homas Murphy, (Jack Keegan, 63) Craig Conlon, Rob O'Shea, Fionn Nally (Darragh Connolly, 72),   Kuanxian Kang (Niall Holleran, 55)   Ryan Scollard

Maynooth Town: 1 Corey Mc Keon, 2 Ryan Moran, 3 Charlie Lyons, 4 Thomas Lunn, 5 Evan White, 6 Evan Hartnett, 7 James Kelly, 8 Jamie Lee Byrne, 9 Oisin Beirne, 10 Milosz Konczarek, 11 Ethan Hennessy. Subs: 12 Finn van Velzen, 13 Ethan Tansey, 14 Craig Fagen, 15 Daniel Tijani, 16 Rian Doyle, 18 Dumitru Mangir

Both sides were left with work to do to avoid the drop after a rough-and-tunuble clash at the Rockies.

Perspiration exceeded inspiration during a first half punctuated by full-blooded collisions in the air and on the ground. Ciaran McGlynn had the first opening fo rthe visitors, but lifted his shot just wide, before Garrett Connolly  teed up Ian Daly for Seaford, but the side-foot finish lacked power.

The Penguins hit the front through skipper  Al Kennedy, who waited 19 matches to break his seasonal duck only to bag two in the space of three days, this time arriving at the back post to conver Rob O'Shea's  whipped cross.

Liffeys ought to have levelled when Dylan Whelan fired low across the face of goal, but Philip Roche Hogan was unable to get his toe to it, and they could consider themselves unlucky to trail at the break.

The Penguins showed more in the second half and should have doubled their lead on the hour when Jamie McCaul released Daly with a great flick, and big playmaker, usually nerveless in front of goal,  sat down Gabriel Allionu but somehow failed to apply the finish with the goal at his mercy.

Gradually Liffeys regained their foothold, with Seaford's back four forced into ever more desparate interventions until eventually, on 77 minutes, the dam broke when Evan Byrne's free kick took a nick off the wall and wrong-footed Oisin Geoghegan. It almost got even worse for the home side four minutes later when Liffeys were awarded a penalty, but Dylan Murphy shot off target.

Momentum swung back in Seaford's favour, as they finished strongly. Twice Alilionu made spectacular saves to keep out Timi Silva's free kicks, before Sam Browne was inches off-target with a diving header. And Bursnie's boys had the ball in the net in the final minute courtesy of Fionn Nally, but it was chalked for a contentious offside call.

Neither side left satisfied with a single point, which puts Liffeys in relegation peril with just a single match left in their season. Seaford remain a point behind them but with five to play.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne, Al Kennedy , Craig Conlon, (Timi Silva, 71) Rob O'Shea, Fionn Nally,  Garrett Connolly (Conor Fennell, 62)   Ian Daly (Daniel Mac Dermott, 88) Jamie McCaul

Liffey Wanderers: 1 Gabriel  Alilionu, 2 Daniel Wilson, 3 Dylan Whelan Bray, 4 Daniel O'Connor, 5 Stephen Dillon, 6 Adam Walsh, 7 Ciaran McGlynn, 8 Sandip Chhantyal, 9 Philip Roche Hogan, 10 Jake Gregg, 11 Dylan Murphy Subs: 12 Luke Cunningham 14 Ethan Costello 15 Kyle Leyland Swaine 16 Evan Byrne 17 Alexander Salazar Rojas 18 Conor Doran

Seaford showed bottle and character to book a place in the quarter final of the Tom Carroll Cup with a hard-fought win over Kilnamanagh. 

The Penguins got off to a flying start when skipper Eoin O'Farrell whipped in a great fcross for Conor Fennell - not renowned for his aerial ability - to bury a header in the bottom corner after eight minutes.

Kilnamanagh had a great chance to level quickly when Alex Molloy almost got in at the back post only to be denied by a brilliant O'Farrell block, and Graham Moran fired the rebound over the bar. 

Seaford's second goal was spectacular. It was creadted by Mate Salacan , who bulldozed a Kilnamanagh midfielder with a meaty challenge, and when the ball broke for Michael Aherne-Gray , the teenager wrapped it into the top corner from more than 25 yards.

The visitors pulled one back through Luke Harman, but Seaford had a great chance to restore thier advantage right on half time when they were awarded a spot-kick. There was nothing wrong with Fennell's penalty but keeper Charlie Hughes sprang to his right to make a stunning save.

Into the second half, now facing ten man, Seaford continued to make the running.  Angel Nunez was dened a goal on his first start by a brilliant Kyle Fox tackle, and somehow Desmond Eiffe failed to convert a brilliant Fennell cross.

And Seaford were punished for their profligacy when the Rockets were awarded a penatly of their own , as Fionn McLoughlin was cruelly punished  for a trip, rushing off his line to grab the rebound form his own fine save.  Shane Maguire made no mistake from 12 yards and it was game on.

But Seaford got their noses in front with the game's third penalty., following a handball near the corner of the box affer an Oscar Fennell throw-in. This time Niall Holleran stuck it away for 3-2.

Kilnamanagh earned a second red card as the game ticked towards 90 minutes and Fennell, who was at the hart of all Seaford's best moves , sealed the win with a fourth in the last minute.

Seaford: Fionn McLoughlin, Eoin O'Farrell, Carlos Monserrat, Alan McGeady  Daniel Mac Dermott ,  Mate Salacan (Oscar Fennell, 76), Michael Aherne-Gray, Niall Holleran, Angel Nunez (Jakub Kot, 64) Conor Fennell,   Desmond Eiffe

Kilnamanagh: 1 Charlie Hughes, 2 Kyle Fox, 3 Alex Molloy, 4 Ryan Kelly, 5 Kenneth Clarke, 6 Conor Hayes, 7 Luke Haybyrne, 8 Luke Harman, 9 Keith Moloney, 10 Shane Maguire, 11 Graham Moran. Subs: 12 Seán Nugent, 13 James Sullivan, 14 Cian Ryan, 15 Mark Mc Sweeney, 16 Nathan Caswell, 17 Anthony Hanavey​

Seaford bounced back from recent disappointments with a dominant win which consigned Maynooth to relegation.

Jamie McCaul bagged an early brace to given the Penguins a commanding lead, first tapping in Sam Browne's flick-on before finishing via a deflection for 2-0.

Seaford’s busy late-season schedule caught up with them as both Darragh Roche and Greg Hughes were forced off in the opening half hour, but it was nonetheless one-way traffic as the home side poured surged time and again.  Fionn Nally squared to give  Ian Daly a great chance, but he side-footed over the top, and then Nally had the ball in the net himself but was pinged for offside. 

The Penguins finished the half in complete control and it was incredible that they didn't add to their tally in the dying moments. McCaul forced an error from Lee Corcoran but keeper Corey McKeon did brilliantly to deny both him and Nally. McCaul then attempted an audacious lob from the near the halfway line that had McKeon scrambling backwards, but it was inches too high. And in stoppage time he had the best chance of all, heading over from an Al Kennedy throw-in with the goal at his mercy.

Instead, it was Maynooth who bagged shortly after half time. Glory Odunze seemed to clearly offside before thumping a high shot past Oisin Geoghegan, but the goal stood and suddenly Seaford seemed nervous, missing all of the fluency which they had shown before the break. Kennedy made a brilliant covering tackle to stop Odenze from equalising, and Thomas Lunn also went close from the edge of the box, as the hosts threatened to implode.

But gradually Burnsie's boys began to reassert themselves, with Timi Silva testing McKeon with a low drive, before the floodgates eventually opened.

Sam Browne got the crucial third goal, heading home Silva's corner before Silva volleyed home himself for 4-1, and the two Seaford centre backs combined for the fifth, as Browne nutmegged David Jordan Konan near the corner flag and played the ball along the edge of the six, where skipper Al Kennedy tapped in at the back post.

The three points finally moves Seaford out of the relegation zone, and still with five games in hand on the teams around them as they look to finish strongly and move up the standings.​

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne (Fionn Geoghegan, 78) Craig Conlon, Al Kennedy Greg Hughes (MJ TIerney, 28) Fionn Nally, Darragh Roche (Timi Silva, 9)  Ian Daly (Niall Holleran, 81) Jamie McCaul  (Darragh Connolly, 76)

Maynooth Town: 1 Corey Mc Keon, 2 Ryan Moran, 3 Thomas Lunn, 4 Evan White, 5 Lee Corcoran, 6 Evan Hartnett, 7 Alan Dolan, 8 Reece Harman, 9 Sean O'Donnell, 10 Milosz Konczarek, 11 Glory Odunze. Subs: 12 James Kelly, 14 David Jordan Konan, 15 Ethan Hennessy​

It was a chastening evneing on the northside as Killester got revenge for the Penguins' comperhensive win only a week earlier by dishing out a hammering of their own at Hadden Park. 

The evening kick-off meant a frantic scramble across the city for Alan Burns's men, necessitating last-minute changes to the starting team, and Seaford couldn't have looked more under-prepared as they found themslves 2-0 down inside six minutes.

First, skipper Adam Power was left unmarked to nod home a corner at the back post. The second goal also came from a corner - at the other end - as the hosts broke at speed, with Louis Butler squaring for Calvin Madden to double the lead.

Seaford bounced back and went agonisingly close to pulling one back in spectacular fashion when Jamie McCaul picked  Nathan Fitzpatrick's pocket and curled a beauty from the corner of the box that crashed off the inside of the far post. McCaul then ran on to a brilliant Garrett Connolly flick, only to smash the ball just wide, before Greg Hughes forced a stunning save  out of Stephen Brennan with a cracking volley.

The chances were all at one end but nothing would go in for Seaford. In the second half,  Killester managed the game commandingly, albeit without offering much threat in the other direction, save when  Shane Hyland burst through to force Oisin Geoghegan into a terrific stop. 

The visitors did everything but put the ball in the net, such as when Sam Brownecut the ball across the goalline, but couldn't find anyone to apply the finishing touch, and subsitute Kuanxian Kang set up a golden chance for Al Kennedy, who was unable to convert late on.

Instead, it was the men in red who had the final say, as  Gary Comiskey followed up a rebound in injury time to complete a miserable evening for Seaford.

Seaford played their best football of the season and routed their promotion-chasing opponents with a vintage display at Rockfield Park, ending their dismal run of league defeats in the bargain.

It was a blistering start from the Penguins, who could have been three up in less than four minutes.  First, Jamie McCaul raced on to a long diagonal and smashed it into the side netting, before Ian Daly,  put Rob O'Shea clean though, ony for Stephen Brennan to deny him a goal. The ball rebounded to Ryan Scollard who smashed it goalward with his left, only for a a defender to block on the goalline.

Seaford continued to pour forward, and made the breakthrough on four minutes, when O'Shea released Fionn Nally to slot home his fourth of the campaign.

But the lead was short-lived. With their first attack of the game, Killester leveled when Jamie Thompson's 20 yard effort took a wicked deflection which Oisin Geoghegan gave no chance.

It almost got worse for Seaford when Calvin Madden whipped in a brilliant right-wing cross which was superbly defended by, Darragh Roche just as Javier Medina Jiménez was about to convert.

Otherwise though, it was one-way trafffic, as Seaford's front four battered the northsiders, who couldn't handle the relentless running from  Scollard, Nally and McCaul on and off the ball, with Daly orchestrating everything with adhesive control and uncanny vision.

It was Daly who laid Scollard in to make it 2-1, before O'Shea saw his low free kick experlyl saved by Brennan. Then Daly struck the crossbar with a vicious corker kick, and shorlty afterward saw another one flicked goalward by Sam Browne, only for Nathan Fitzpatrick to clear it off the line.

It was more of the same after the break, and it seemed only a matter of time before Seaford extended their lead. Eventually it was McCaul who nabbed it, poaching a third for the Penguins at the second attempt after Killester failed to deail with another Daly delivery.

Ben Kelly laid in .Scollard to make it 4-1 and Kelly ought to added one himself with a free header from yet another Daly whip. Instead it was another sub, Greg Hughes, who got the fifth with his first involvement off the bench, bursting down the left wing and smashing it into the top corner..

The hosts had the cigars out by now, but Killester almost got one back couresy of an extraordinary 40-yard Howitzer from Calvin Madden, but Geoghegan did well to parry it. Scollard might have had th efinal say by compelting his hat-trick but unselfishly tried to square it for Zitian Xiang  to score, but a a defender intervened.

A quick turnaround for Burnsie's boys, who take on Templeogue United on Saturday aiming for a third straight win.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne (Craig Conlon, 78),  Al Kennedy  Rob O'Shea (Ben Kelly, h/t),, ,Thomas Murphy (Eoin Mahon, 75)  Fionn Nally (Greg Hughes, 80)  Ian Daly, Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 79) Ryan Scollard

Killester Donnycarney: 1 Stephen Brennan, 2 Jamie Keating, 3 Sean Connor, 4 Louis Butler, 5 Darragh Geraghty, 6 Jack Power, 9 Calvin Madden, 10 Malik Shushan, 11 Javier Medina Jiménez, 12 Stephen Power, 16 Jamie Thompson. Subs: 7 Daniel O'Mahony, 8 Cian Whelan, 13 Nathan Fitzpatrick, 14 Karl Crawford, 15 Michael O'Mahony, 17 Ryan Morris