Kerry and Westmeath couldn’t be separated in their Allianz Hurling League Division 2 encounter in Austin Stack Park, while Laois made it two wins from two with a routine victory over Derry in Portlaoise.<\/p>\n
Making their first start of the campaign after a bye-week in Round 1, Westmeath began well with three opening points but were hit with two first-half goals, Tom Doyle and Ronan Walsh finding the net in the first half to leave Kerry 2-05 to 0-07 ahead at the break.<\/p>\n
Kerry enjoyed a very heavy win away to Derry last week and led for most of the game here against their erstwhile promotion rivals.<\/p>\n
They held onto a three-point lead as the game entered the closing stretch, however a brace of points from Killian Doyle and an equaliser deep in injury-time from Eamonn Cunneen salvaged a draw for Westmeath, 2-11 to 0-17 the final score.<\/p>\n
It was considerably less dramatic in O’Moore Park, Laois backing up their eye-wateringly large victory over Mayo (6-23 to 0-12) with a more humdrum 10-point win at home to Derry.<\/p>\n
Aaron Dunphy hit 0-12 overall as the home side ran out easy winners, Derry undermined by Thomas Brady’s first-half red card. Laois slackened off a touch after that but cantered home on a 0-25 to 0-15 scoreline.<\/p>\n
Two of Sunday’s three Division 2 games ended up in draws, with Mayo snatching a point against London in Ruislip. Cormac Phillips hit a second-half goal as the visitors struck the last three points to earn a draw on a 0-19 to 1-16 scoreline.<\/p>\n
In the day’s sole Division 3 game, Wicklow found the going especially easy against Armagh, goals from Seanie Germaine and Padraig Doyle the highlights as they sauntered to a 2-26 to 0-10 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry and Westmeath couldn’t be separated in their Allianz Hurling League Division 2 encounter in Austin Stack Park,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-276024","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\/276024","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=276024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}