{"id":226130,"date":"2026-01-04T00:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:51:07","slug":"senior-footballers-open-2026-with-a-win-dublin-gaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226130\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Footballers open 2026 with a win | Dublin GAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite O\u2019Carroll halving that margin through a 35th\u00a0minute free, Dublin completely dominated the third quarter and it was of scant surprise to see them add a fourth goal soon after with Lundy once again providing the assist as substitute Kennedy fisted home at the back post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guiden and Lundy added to the away lead before O\u2019Callaghan showcased his\u00a0threat\u00a0from distance as he added a brace of two pointed scores to leave Dublin ten points clear by the 42ndminute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, a degree of fluency was lost as Brennan introduced a plethora of substitutes and the hosts began to claw their way back into contention through successive points from Cian Doyle, O\u2019Carroll and Killian Byrne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another fisted goal, this time from Laois\u2019\u00a0Killian Byrne in the 47th\u00a0minute, was just reward for the home efforts but with another substitute Clyde Burke responding with a two-pointer, Dublin progressed to a meeting with Kildare next weekend as O\u2019Callaghan completed the scoring with another red flag in added time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scorers \u2013 Dublin:\u00a0N O\u2019Callaghan 1-6 (3 P2); S Guiden (2f), C Burke (1 P2) 0-3 each; R Shaw, T Deering, E Kennedy 1-0 each; K Stephenson, J Lundy 0-1 apiece.\u00a0Laois:\u00a0E O\u2019Carroll 0-6 (1f); K Byrne 1-0; K Roche 0-3 (1 F2, 1 \u201945); B Byrne, M Byron (F2) 0-2 each; B O\u2019Connor, C Doyle (f),\u00a0P O\u2019Sullivan, C Dunne 0-1 apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dublin:\u00a0S Moloney; E O\u2019Callaghan, F Bruton, J Bannon; P White, T Deering, R Shaw; J Feehan, K Stephenson; J McCormack, J Lundy, D Knight-Sands; S Guiden, N O\u2019Callaghan, C Chawke. Subs:\u00a0L Smith for Bruton (half-time),\u00a0E Kennedy\u00a0for Knight-Sands (half-time), C McCarville for Chawke (half-time),\u00a0R O\u2019Brien for Moloney (40), D Murphy for E O\u2019Callaghan (40), D Kettle for Lundy (40), C Burke for\u00a0Feehan\u00a0(40),\u00a0F Potts for\u00a0Bannon (46), C Dunne for McCormack (46).<\/p>\n<p>Laois:\u00a0K Roche; C Gee, T Collins, B O\u2019Connor; J Lacey, K Swayne, A McEvoy; R Tyrrell, C Heffernan; K Byrne, C Doyle, J Hogan; N Corbet, B Byrne, E O\u2019Carroll.\u00a0Subs:\u00a0M Dempsey for Heffernan\u00a0(half-time), M Byron for Roche\u00a0(half-time), C Lee for Lacey\u00a0(40), P O&#8217;Sullivan for Corbet\u00a0(40), D Boland for Gee\u00a0(46), C Dunne for O&#8217;Carroll\u00a0(46), J Shelly for Hogan\u00a0(56).<\/p>\n<p>Referee: James Foley (Carlow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite O\u2019Carroll halving that margin through a 35th\u00a0minute free, Dublin completely dominated the third quarter and it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-226130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}