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Mon 11 Nov 2002Mount Sion get all the breaksMount Sion ... 2-12 Mullinahone ... 0-15 A week after their landmark county title win in Tipperary, Mullinahone let further achievement slip like sand through their fingers in Walsh Park, Waterford yesterday. A tough and enthralling AIB Munster semi-final ended with Mount Sion having got the breaks and put them to good use.The only breaks Mullinahone got were bad ones. Their impressive home-grown crop of quality players was fatally thinned by injury. The immaculate Paul Kelly could play no part. His prodigious brother Eoin pulled a hamstring in the second half and couldn't even hobble out to take frees. Brian O'Meara played with a broken bone in his hand, while manager and all-round inspiration John Leahy also appeared troubled in the second half. Up-and-coming centrefielder Eddie Carey was withdrawn before the start.