The Laois senior footballers are through to the next round of the Tailteann Cup following a 15-point win over London this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Justin McNulty’s men produced an excellent final twenty minutes and advance to the next stage of the competition.<\/p>\n
They will either have a home quarter final or face New York in a preliminary quarter final \u2013 with the draw on Monday.<\/p>\n
While London are still in the competition and will be in Round 3 against one of the Round 2B winners.<\/p>\n
The game swung one way and then the other in the opening ten minutes with Laois leading by one at the end of it.<\/p>\n
Ronan Coffey, Paddy O\u2019Sullivan, Evan O\u2019Carroll and Conor Heffernan scored for Laois while Shay Rafter (2) and Kristian Healy replied for London.<\/p>\n
The half\u2019s only goal arrived then and it was all created by Paddy O\u2019Sullivan who executed a brilliant turnover on his own 45.<\/p>\n
He found Ronan Coffey who picked out Evan O\u2019Carroll with an excellent kick pass and the Crettyard man beat Conor O\u2019Donohue before shooting to the net.<\/p>\n
London almost replied instantly as Liam Murphy got in one on one but the recalled Killian Roche made an incredible save to deny him.<\/p>\n
Ronan Coffey and Joe McGill then traded two pointers to leave it 1-07 to 0-05 after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
And the sides largely went score for score for the final 15 minutes with Laois getting the last two thanks to Roche and Mikie Dempsey to lead 1-11 to 1-07 at half time.<\/p>\n
Laois eased further ahead when play resumed but then London came with a surge.<\/p>\n
Sub Tighe Barry started a move that was finished to the net by Michael O\u2019Reilly and then the former kicked a point.<\/p>\n
That left it 1-14 to 1-11 with 47 minutes played and the London crowd were beginning to believe that a comeback was on.<\/p>\n
But Laois\u2019s display for the final 30 minutes was exceptional. They scored nine points in a row to take the game away.<\/p>\n
Subs Paul Kingston and Cian Nolan set the tone with two pointers and an array of players got in on the act after that.<\/p>\n
By the time London scored again, Laois were 13 points clear and the game was over.<\/p>\n
Laois: Killian Roche 0-02f; Jack Lacey, Trevor Collins, Alex Mohan; Paddy O\u2019Sullivan 0-03, Simon Fingleton 0-02, Kevin Swayne 0-01; Conor Heffernan 0-01, Rob Tyrrell; Mikie Dempsey 0-01, Ronan Coffey 0-03 (1tp), Pa Kirwan 0-02 (1tp); Evan O\u2019Carroll 1-05 (0-01f), Daragh Galvin 0-01, Brian Byrne 0-01.<\/p>\n
Subs: Paul Kingston 0-04 (1tp) for Byrne (41), Ben Dempsey for Lacey and Cian Nolan 0-02 (1tp) for M Dempsey (both 49), Rioghan Murphy for O\u2019Carroll (59), Darren Brennan for Coffey (61)<\/p>\n
London: Andrew Walsh; Liam Crowley, Conor O\u2019Donohue, Sean O\u2019Donohue; Finbarr Crowley, Conall Gallagher, David Gouldson 0-01; Liam Gallagher, Liam Murphy; Ciaran Diver 0-02 (1tp, 1f), Joe McGill 0-02 (1tp, 1f), Kristian Healy; Michael O\u2019Reilly 1-00, Shay Rafter 0-03, James Davis.<\/p>\n
Subs: Josh Obahor for Healy (25, Inj), Tighe Barry 0-01 for Gouldson (38), Daniel Clarke for Murphy (47), Henry Walsh for O\u2019Reilly (56), Nathan Freeman for 0-01 Davis (60)<\/p>\n
Referee: Fergal Kelly (Longford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Laois senior footballers are through to the next round of the Tailteann Cup following a 15-point win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-463679","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\/463679","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=463679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}