Veteran forward Neil McManus was forced off by a hamstring injury less than 10 minutes after scoring his goal and must be a huge doubt for Antrim's remaining Leinster round-robin games against Galway and Westmeath.

The relatively few episodes of gruesomely entertaining horror fail to hold together a novel that seems to have spread itself too thin.Keoghan completed a hat-trick of goals before the interval with Keelan Molloy hitting Antrim's first-half goal.Īntrim improved after the break and Conor Johnston and Neil McManus netted before Reid notched his second goal.Īfter their lacklustre first-half efforts, the Saffrons did raise their intensity considerably in the second period with a change of tactics to a more direct method causing the Cats difficulty but it was damage limitation for the home side by that stage.

The terrible nightmares of photojournalist Sean McCullain, for example, are built up as a significant theme throughout the novel, then suddenly cease to matter when Sean turns out to be a reincarnation of the Celtic hero Cuchullain, the only entity capable of conquering the Shee. Although their numbers do allow the author to devise a devilishly clever variety of horrid deaths at the hands of the Shee, they mainly get in the way of suspense. Perhaps in an effort to achieve epic scope, Scottish journalist Donnelly ( Bane ) taxes the simplistic story with a plethora of characters who pack the novel with half-baked subplots until the obligatory final bloodbath. Eventually, the Shee escapes bodily from the chamber in which the ancient Irish imprisoned her and goes on a gory rampage, systematically wiping out the town. As excavators begin to unearth a passageway into an ancient barrow near the tiny village of Kilgallen, its citizens find themselves driven to kill by a mysterious, evil force. The shopworn plot of this horror novel has a team of archeologists unleashing the Celtic goddess of destruction, the Shee, on a quiet village in western Ireland.

The Shee by Joe Donnelly