{"id":394303,"date":"2026-04-12T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:53:10","slug":"laois-open-leinster-sfc-account-with-three-goal-win-over-neighbours-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394303\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois open Leinster SFC account with three-goal win over neighbours Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Laois 3-12 Offaly 0-12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Swayne of Laois in action against Jordan Hayes of Offaly during the Leinster SFC round one match at Glenisk O'Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3423479.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kevin Swayne of Laois in action against Jordan Hayes of Offaly during the Leinster SFC round one match at Glenisk O&#8217;Connor Park in Tullamore, Offaly. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While an injury\u2011hit Offaly had lost all seven games in Division 2 of the National Football League, Laois could never have expected to have things as handy as they sauntered to a comfortable win in the first round of the Leinster championship in Tullamore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On a very bad day for Offaly, Laois were the better side from start to finish, looking like winning almost from the throw\u2011in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laois 3-12 Offaly 0-12 Kevin Swayne of Laois in action against Jordan Hayes of Offaly during the Leinster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,50284,8067,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-394303","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-laois-gaa","11":"tag-offaly-gaa","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394303","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=394303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}