Electric Ireland Leinster MFC\u200b, Round 1<\/p>\n
Group 1<\/p>\n
Kildare 1-12 Laois 0-9<\/p>\n
Meath (postponed) Louth<\/p>\n
Group 2<\/p>\n
Dublin 3-14 Offaly 1-13<\/p>\n
Longford (postponed) Westmeath<\/p>\n
Group 3<\/p>\n
Wicklow 0-14 Wexford 0-3<\/p>\n
Carlow 4-14 Kilkenny 2-4<\/p>\n
By Paul Keane<\/p>\n
We stand to be corrected but Cian Raftery surely set a new scoring record as Dublin enjoyed a significant win over holders Offaly at Parnell Park.<\/p>\n
With less than 60 seconds on the clock, the young Dublin forward had already registered 1-2, laying down the platform for the hosts to secure a prized win.<\/p>\n
Raftery burst clear for Dublin’s opening goal from the throw-in and when they then won back possession from the Offaly kick-out, Raftery pointed from outside the arc for the two-pointer.<\/p>\n
The half forward is from the Whitehall Colmcille club who congratulated him for making the team ahead of the game, noting that their young talent is still an U-16.<\/p>\n
Raftery continued to impress, adding a second two-pointer as Dublin opened up an early 1-4 to no score advantage.<\/p>\n
Dublin hit the interval with a 1-7 to 0-5 lead as Offaly captain Paddy Burns rallied the Faithful with three points in response.<\/p>\n
Offaly refused to throw in the towel and back-to-back two-pointers from James Slevin and Burns in the third quarter reduced the gap to two points.<\/p>\n
But they couldn’t get any closer than that margin as Dublin picked off timely goals from Cian O’Dwyer and Eoghan Madden to remain just out of arm’s reach.<\/p>\n
Darragh Stewart struck the Offaly goal after pouncing on a Dublin error at the back and Oliver Goulding nailed a two-point free.<\/p>\n
Dublin finished strongly, however, with Andy McDonnell and full-forward Jamie Heavey both pointing to stretch the gap to seven by full-time.<\/p>\n
Jack Reilly was Kildare’s key man in their Group 1 win over Laois in Portlaoise, helping himself to 1-6.<\/p>\n
Reilly netted from the penalty spot in the seventh minute and added a two-pointer from a free to help Kildare lead 1-6 to 0-4 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Greg Kelly and Aodh\u00e1n Bergin also got among the scores in the second half while Ethan Neilon top scored for Laois with four points.<\/p>\n
In Group 3, Wicklow were comfortable winners against hosts Wexford, building on their 0-5 to 0-3 half-time lead to win by 11 points.<\/p>\n
Se\u00e1n Corrigan scored a two-pointer for Wicklow who capitalised on the stiff wind to hold Wexford scoreless in the second half.<\/p>\n
Rian Nolan, Michael Redmond, Jack Monahan and Craig Burgess grabbed the goals for Carlow in their defeat of Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
Carlow led by 0-8 to 1-1 at half-time and added a brace of goals after the restart along with two more in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n
David Phelan and Sean Daly struck the goals for the Cats.<\/p>\n
The postponed Group 2 game between Longford and Westmeath has been refixtured for Thursday evening at Allen Park, Newtownforbes (7.30pm). The outstanding Group 1 game between Meath and Louth will also take place on Thursday at a time and venue to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Leinster MFC\u200b, Round 1 Group 1 Kildare 1-12 Laois 0-9 Meath (postponed) Louth Group 2 Dublin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-363287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363287","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=363287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}