Many thanks to Robert Pye, who answered the question from the previous past on what the final outcome was in the Leinster Senior Schoolboys’ Championship (essentially the Leinster U19 championship) in 1972: the players shared the title after they had each won one game in a playoff match (see comment on last post). This was the first shared title.
The event itself was held at St. Joseph’s School for the Blind from December 28, 1971 to January 3, 1972. Eleven players entered, and Pye and Kernan finished joint first on 5½/6, dropping only a half point against each other.
Their game, in round 3, appeared in Paul Cassidy’s column in the Irish Independent on January 7. As of the date of this post, it does not appear in the ICU games archive.
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The diagram shows the position facing Pye at move 10. On the previous move, he had inadvisedly captured on d5 (9. d4, with an equal game, was better).
The game continued 10. d4 exf3 (better 10… Bd6 11. Ne5 cxd5, when Black stands considerably better) 11. dxc5 fxg2 (here 11… Qg6! retained some advantage) 12. Re1, when Black’s advantage had disspiated.