A second Westmeath goal was added in the 28th minute courtesy of Brandon Kelly.<\/p>\n
Ciaran Murphy replied with an Offaly goal before the break, but Westmeath still led by seven points at the turnaround.<\/p>\n
After the restart Offaly narrowed the gap with Ciaran Murphy pinching a goal, while Jack Bryant and Cormac Egan contributed points.<\/p>\n
Westmeath, though, summoned a response as Senan Baker, McCartan, and Kelly netted further goals for Mark McHugh’s outfit.<\/p>\n
Dioralyte O’Byrne Shield Semi-Finals<\/p>\n
Wicklow 3-15 Longford 1-11<\/p>\n
Carlow 2-15 Laois 3-9<\/p>\n
Wicklow and Carlow will contest the Dioralyte O’Brien Shield Final.<\/p>\n
Eoin D’arcy, Sean Murphy, and Darragh Fee grabbed goals as Wicklow beat Longford in impressive fashion.<\/p>\n
A second half Cathal McCabe goal gave the midlanders’ some hope, but Wicklow ran out comfortable victors.<\/p>\n
Colm Hulton’s 58th minute goal was the key score as Carlow edged out Laois in Rathvilly.<\/p>\n
Alan Kinsella (two) and Paul Kingston were Laois’ goalscorers in an entertaining encounter.<\/p>\n
Ross Dunphy and Hulton contributed goals for Carlow, while Conor Doyle supplied a couple of excellent two pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second Westmeath goal was added in the 28th minute courtesy of Brandon Kelly. Ciaran Murphy replied with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-238774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238774","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=238774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}