All-Ireland SFC, Round 1: Galway 3-21 (3-4-13) Kildare 0-17 (0-4-9)<\/p>\n
Galway<\/a> safely advanced to Round 2A of the All-Ireland<\/a> title race with a 13-point win over Kildare<\/a> in Salthill.<\/p>\n Rob Finnerty led the way with 1-9 from play in a superb display of shooting as the Tribesmen bounced back from their Connacht final defeat to Roscommon.<\/p>\n Kildare won the toss and opted to play with the wind in the opening half but went in trailing 2-8 to 0-12 at the break.<\/p>\n Finnerty was in superb form, kicking 0-5 from play in the opening half, getting Galway off the mark with a point off his right boot before kicking the rest with his stronger left side.<\/p>\n A two-pointer from Brian McLoughlin got Kildare moving but they were hit with a big blow after five minutes when Matthew Tierney fisted home a goal after a good build-up involving Finnerty and Paul Conroy.<\/p>\n That was only Galway\u2019s second ever goal in six championship meetings against Kildare \u2013 the other coming from manager Padr\u00e1ic Joyce in the 1998 All-Ireland final \u2013 but they got another one midway through the half.<\/p>\n A superb ball out of defence from Conroy after a good turnover from Cian Hernon and Se\u00e1n Kelly sent Dylan McHugh away. His probing ball sent C\u00e9in D\u2019Arcy through the middle and he finished powerfully to the net to lead 2-4 to 0-5 after 17 minutes.<\/p>\n Kildare remained in contention by landing four of five two-pointer attempts. Alex Beirne got a couple of them and Darragh Kirwan also hit the range to trail by two at the interval.<\/p>\n Kildare, back in the All-Ireland series for the first time in three years, needed a big start to the second half but last year\u2019s Tailteann Cup champions were hit with a pair of two-pointers from Galway.<\/p>\n Finnerty got the first and then Shane Walsh, who had kicked a two-point free in the opening half, landed a superb effort from the left.<\/p>\n McLoughlin and Kirwan responded for Kildare but Galway, after drafting Damien Comer into their attack, pushed on and Finnerty finished another good move by fisting to the net after being set up by Walsh and Conroy to extend the lead to 3-13 to 0-14 after 54 minutes.<\/p>\n There was no way back for Kildare from there as Galway eased their way to a 13 points victory.<\/p>\n GALWAY: C Gleeson; J Glynn, C Hernon, L Slike; D McHugh, J Daly, S Kelly; P Conroy (0-0-1), J Maher (0-0-1); C D\u2019Arcy (1-0-0), C Mulhern, C McDaid (0-0-2); R Finnerty (1-2-5), M Tierney (1-0-0), S Walsh (0-2-2, 1tpf, 1f). Subs: D Comer (0-0-1) for Mulhern (45 mins), S \u00d3 Maoilchiar\u00e1in for Hernon (55), S McGrath (0-0-1) for Tierney (60), D McGlinchey for Conroy (64), B Cogger for McDaid (66).<\/p>\n KILDARE: E Sheehan; R Burke, M Dempsey, H O\u2019Neill; J McGrath, E Lawlor, B Byrne; K Feely (0-0-1), B Gibbons; B McLoughlin (0-1-1), A Beirne (0-2-1, 1f), C Dalton (0-0-1); B Loakman (0-0-1), D Kirwan (0-1-1), E Cully. Subs: J Harris for Lawlor (21 mins), D Swords (0-0-1) for Cully (27), J Robinson (0-0-2) for Loakman (51), T Gill for McGrath (55), S Doran for O\u2019Neill (68).<\/p>\n Referee: P Faloon (Down).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC, Round 1: Galway 3-21 (3-4-13) Kildare 0-17 (0-4-9) Galway safely advanced to Round 2A of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,110979,61,60,3771,6398,112],"class_list":["post-464611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare-gaa","tag-match-report","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464611","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=464611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}