Match moves as darkness hits the park!

By Dan Walsh

Wednesday night’s first round O’Byrne Cup football clash between Wexford and Wicklow at Innovate Wexford Park produced a successful ‘moving venue’ scenario in very unusual circumstances.

Many spectators were already in their seats and the visiting Wicklow team were already out on the pitch and soon the game would start when the floodlights embarked on a flickering motion as an electrical fault developed.

Despite best efforts to rectify the troublesome technical crisis with a generator the fault could not be solved in time, and, consequently, the match was transferred to the Halo Tiles Centre of Excellence at Ferns at short notice with a revised 8.30pm kick off.

Eventually, the match got under way at 9pm and produced a good local result with Wexford defeating Wicklow, 4-15 to 2-12, strongly supported with goals from Mark Rossiter (two), Ben Brosnan and Conor Kinsella.