TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin and Kildare were relegated from Division 1 of the Lidl National League on Sunday after a dramatic day of action.<\/p>\n
Dublin defeated Cork by 2-08 to 1-06 thanks to goals from Michelle Davoren and Annabelle Timothy, but they were not in control of their own destiny going into the final round of games.<\/p>\n
Reigning league champions Kerry did enough to secure a 2-10 to 2-09 win over Kildare, with goals from Danielle O’Leary and S\u00edofra O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n
And with Marion Farrelly producing a late equaliser for Meath to draw with Armagh on a 0-11 to 1-08 scoreline, it confirmed that Dublin and Kildare will play their 2027 Lidl National Football League campaign in Division 2.<\/p>\n
Galway, similar to the Cork side they will meet in this year\u2019s Division 1 final, also suffered defeat in their final round when they went down to Waterford with an understrength side, going down by 2-12 to 0-10.<\/p>\n
In Division 2, Donegal earned promotion and will join Cavan in the final.<\/p>\n
A convincing 0-11 to 0-03 Donegal win over Wexford confirmed promotion to the top flight for Donegal and also ensured an all-Ulster divisional final.<\/p>\n
Cavan, having already qualified, went down by 1-15 to 2-09 to relegated Westmeath.<\/p>\n
In Division 3, Antrim were promoted and will play Louth in the final.<\/p>\n
In a winner-takes-all promotion clash, it was Antrim who claimed the spoils over Down at P\u00e1irc Esler by 2-08 to 1-09.<\/p>\n
Laois defeated Louth by 0-09 to 0-08 but could not avoid joining Limerick in making the drop to Division 4.<\/p>\n
The Division 4 final will be contested by Leitrim and Carlow.<\/p>\n
In Sunday\u2019s semi-finals, which also doubled up as promotion deciders, Leitrim beat neighbours Sligo by 2-10 to 1-11 after extra time, while Carlow defeated Offaly by 4-11 to 2-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin and Kildare were relegated from Division 1 of the Lidl National League on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-371838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371838","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=371838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}