{"id":324630,"date":"2026-03-02T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:43:12","slug":"laois-take-control-in-division-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324630\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois take control in Division 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laois continued their flawless Allianz Hurling League Division 2 campaign with a 1-23 to 0-17 victory over Westmeath at TEG Cusack Park.<\/p>\n<p>The first half was a tight affair with the teams level at 0-09 each after 35 minutes in a somewhat uninspiring affair.<\/p>\n<p>The turning point of the game came in the 45th minute as a Tom\u00e1s Keyes goal made it 1-13 to 0-13 in favour of the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Tom\u00e1s and James Keyes were prolific in front of the posts to take the game away from Westmeath in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal were comfortable winners over Louth at the Protection &amp; Prosperity Centre of Excellence in Darver.<\/p>\n<p>The Ulster side had 19 points to spare in a 3-20 to 1-10 success to sit top of Division 3.<\/p>\n<p>Wicklow added to Fermanagh&#8217;s miserable campaign with the biggest win of the day, 5-14 to 0-07, in Aughrim.<\/p>\n<p>In Division 4, Warwickshire got the better of Monaghan on a scoreline of 3-11 to 0-13 in P\u00e1irc na h\u00c9ireann<\/p>\n<p>Watch Allianz League Sunday from 9.35pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on all matches on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laois continued their flawless Allianz Hurling League Division 2 campaign with a 1-23 to 0-17 victory over Westmeath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-324630","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\/324630","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=324630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}