{"id":414473,"date":"2026-04-24T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:27:13","slug":"early-blitz-from-kildare-leaves-westmeath-too-much-to-do-and-sets-up-leinster-u-20-semi-final-date-with-meath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414473\/","title":{"rendered":"Early blitz from Kildare leaves Westmeath too much to do and sets up Leinster U-20 semi-final date with Meath"},"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\">Kildare 1-20 Westmeath 2-12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ronan Kelly of Kildare's 1-7 went a long way to seeing off Westmeath. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RK.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)\">Ronan Kelly of Kildare&#8217;s 1-7 went a long way to seeing off Westmeath. Photo by Tyler Miller\/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)\">Kildare qualified to play Meath in the Leinster U-20 football semi-final with a deserved five-point win against Westmeath in a rescheduled quarter-final in glorious weather conditions in Mullingar, eight days after bad weather in Kinnegad caused it to be abandoned at half-time.<\/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)\">Westmeath spurned a couple of early chances before wind-assisted Kildare took complete control, kicking a remarkable 1-10 without reply by the 16th minute. This haul included three two-pointers \u2013 frees by Ronan Kelly and Jimmy Lynch, and one from play by Ben Ryan. The goal was scored in the eighth minute by Kelly at the end of a great move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kildare 1-20 Westmeath 2-12 Ronan Kelly of Kildare&#8217;s 1-7 went a long way to seeing off Westmeath. Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,3771,112,74467],"class_list":["post-414473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare-gaa","tag-sports","tag-westmeath-gaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414473","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=414473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}