{"id":443041,"date":"2026-05-11T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:15:07","slug":"sligo-u20s-await-down-or-wexford-in-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443041\/","title":{"rendered":"Sligo U20s await Down or Wexford in All-Ireland final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sligo under-20 gaelic footballers are getting ready for an All-Ireland under-20 &#8216;B&#8217; football final appearance next week, following Sunday&#8217;s penalty shootout victory over Tipperary at Markievicz Park.<\/p>\n<p>The sides finished level at 2-20 to 0-26 after extra-time &#8211; with Sligo winning 5-3 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Lang, James Lavin, Paul Flynn, Cian Nicholson and Cian Carty all converted their spot kicks to send Sligo into the final on Wednesday, May 20th.<\/p>\n<p>They now await the winners of this Wednesday&#8217;s second semi-final between Down and Wexford in Abbotstown (8pm).<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s victory proved a timely antidote to Sligo seniors disappointing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanfm.ie\/sport\/tipperary-beat-poor-sligo-in-tailteann-cup-1230536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tailteann Cup display against Tipp<\/a> in the first game at Markievicz Park.<\/p>\n<p>Listen back here to the penalty shootout on Sunday, as described by the Ocean FM Sport commentary team of Rian Bailey and Willie Gormley.<\/p>\n<p>All-Ireland U20 &#8216; B&#8217; football semi-final result<br \/>Sligo 2-20 Tipperary 0-26 after extra-time<br \/>Sligo won 5-3 on penalties)<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 13th<br \/>All-Ireland U20 &#8216;B&#8217; semi-final<br \/>Down v Wexford, 8pm<\/p>\n<p>All-Ireland U20 &#8216;A&#8217; semi-finals<br \/>Kerry v Roscommon, 7:30pm<br \/>Tyrone (holders) v Kildare, 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 20th<br \/>All-Ireland U20 &#8216;B&#8217; football final<br \/>Sligo v Down\/Wexford<br \/>Venue &amp; time tbc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sligo under-20 gaelic footballers are getting ready for an All-Ireland under-20 &#8216;B&#8217; football final appearance next week, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-443041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443041","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=443041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}