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\nConor O’Neill scored Tyrone’s winning goal<\/p>\n
Kobe McDonald blasted two first half goals as Mayo ran out 10 points winners over Galway in the top of the table clash in the Connacht Under-20 football championship meeting in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.<\/p>\n
The teenage star, who made waves in the Allianz Football League with stellar cameo performances against Monaghan and Armagh, struck two goals in the second quarter Mayo built up a 13-point half-time lead, 2-11 to 0-04, albeit with the aid of ferociously strong breeze.<\/p>\n
Galway, with Mikey Mulryan to the fore, sought to whittle down the deficit after the interval but Dylan Flynn’s 47th minute goal killed the chance of a revival.<\/p>\n
Mulryan notched a couple of two-point frees before tagging on a goal but the hosts ran out 3-16 to 1-12 winners to secure automatic passage to the final.<\/p>\n
Galway will face Roscommon in the semi-final after the latter just about pipped Leitrim in King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park.<\/p>\n
Roscommon led on the odd score of 3-03 to 1-02 at half-time, John Curran scoring two goals (of a 2-04 total), while John McGuinness found the net for the third, aided by a deflection.<\/p>\n
Leitrim needed to win by seven points to sneak third place in the table at Roscommon’s expense. A Jack Kelly two-pointer and a Frankie McGuinness propelled them back into the game but they lost by two in the finish, 3-06 to 2-07.<\/p>\n
A late, late goal from Conor O’Neill saw Tyrone snatch victory from under Derry’s nose in their Ulster quarter-final clash at Celtic Park.<\/p>\n
Johnny McGuckian’s late point looked to have sealed a semi-final spot for the hosts but then O’Neill popped up with an injury-time strike. Shea McDermott tagged on another point at the death to make it a 1-11 to 0-12 scoreline.<\/p>\n
\nConor O’Neill scored Tyrone’s winning goal<\/p>\n
Tyrone will face Donegal in the first semi-final, while Monaghan will tussle with Armagh in the other semi after overcoming Cavan in Kingspan Breffni.<\/p>\n
Max Maguire’s first half goal was crucial to help Monaghan stay in touch after a poor start. Trailing by three at the break, they took control down the stretch, with Maguire – who landed a huge two-pointer to put them in front – and Tom Doherty to the fore. They saw it out to win 1-17 to 0-16 and progress to the last four in Ulster.<\/p>\n
Longford reached the semi-finals of the Leinster Under-20 football championship after digging out a two-point win over Offaly in Newtownforbes.<\/p>\n
The midlanders had finished second in Group 2 following wins over Laois and Carlow and a heavy defeat to table toppers Meath.<\/p>\n
First half goals from Max Gallagher and Cormac Flynn saw them lead by the minimum, 2-07 to 1-09, at the break, Dylan Dunne bagging a goal for Offaly.<\/p>\n
Paddy Mollagan’s second half goal pushed Longford four clear but while Offaly narrowed the deficit, the hosts held on to book a semi-final spot against Louth.<\/p>\n
Meath will have a further wait to find out their opponents after tonight’s quarter-final between Kildare and Westmeath was postponed at half-time.<\/p>\n
Kildare led 0-06 to 0-03 at the midway point in Kinnegad, however a half-time pitch inspection from referee Ian Howley resulted in the game being abandoned.<\/p>\n
HURLING <\/p>\n
Cork landed six of the last seven scores to overhaul Waterford in a low-scoring contest in Fraher Field, eliminating the latter from the championship.<\/p>\n
The Rebels entered the game on the back of one win and one loss, bouncing back from their loss to Tipperary with a nine point win over Limerick.<\/p>\n
Waterford, meanwhile, needed a win following narrow defeats to Clare and Tipp.<\/p>\n
The hosts looked primed to register their first win with 10 minutes left. Trailing by just a point at the break after playing against the breeze, they took command in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Points from Mark Hartley, Conor Tobin and David Comerford saw them nudge 0-12 to 0-09 clear entering the closing stages. However, they stalled from there, with Cork powering for home, Jack O’Brien finishing with a 0-10 point haul in total.<\/p>\n
Noel Furlong’s side won 0-16 to 0-13 to go top of the table, though Clare and Tipperary have a game in hand. Waterford, after a third unlucky loss, bow out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe McDonald blasted two first half goals as Mayo ran out 10 points winners over Galway in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-400876","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\/400876","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=400876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}