Tailteann Cup Round 2B<\/p>\n
SLIGO 0-29 WATERFORD 3-12<\/p>\n
By Gavin Cawley At Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field<\/p>\n
Sligo booked their place in Round 3 of the Tailteann Cup and secured a first championship victory under joint managers Dessie Sloyan and Eamonn O\u2019Hara with a comfortable win over Waterford, who finish the season without a victory.<\/p>\n
Lee Deignan starred for the Yeats County with an impressive tally of 11 points as Sligo claimed their first championship win of 2026.<\/p>\n
Waterford made the brighter start and opened the scoring through Michael O\u2019Brien after just two minutes. However, Sligo quickly settled, with Lee Deignan landing an early two-pointer before Niall Murphy added another score to leave the visitors two points ahead after five minutes.<\/p>\n
The hosts responded well with points from Caolan Mac Cathmhaoil and Dermot Ryan to level matters after eight minutes.<\/p>\n
Sligo soon regained control as Lee Deignan converted his second two-pointer of the game, underlining the visitors\u2019 attacking threat.<\/p>\n
After both sides exchanged scores, Sligo took firm control with five unanswered points, including another two-pointer from Shane Deignan, to move 0-12 to 0-5 ahead after 28 minutes.<\/p>\n
The visitors continued to dominate approaching half-time and added a fourth two-pointer of the opening period to take an 11-point advantage into the break at 0-18 to 0-7.<\/p>\n
Jack Lavin opened the second-half scoring for Sligo after 40 minutes, but Waterford responded immediately with their first goal when Aaron Ryan finished to the net following excellent work from Alan Dunwoody.<\/p>\n
Sligo reacted well to the setback and reeled off five unanswered points, with the Deignan brothers and Cian Lally all on target, to stretch their lead to 14 points once again.<\/p>\n
Waterford struck for a second goal on 55 minutes to give themselves hope of a comeback after Aaron Ryan\u2019s effort came back off the post and Liam Mulligan reacted quickest to finish the rebound.<\/p>\n
Two further Waterford points reduced the deficit to nine, but an important score from Niall Murphy halted their momentum and restored Sligo\u2019s ten-point cushion.<\/p>\n
To their credit, Waterford finished strongly and added 1-2 in injury time, with Dermot Ryan grabbing their third goal, but it proved only a consolation as Sligo ran out deserving winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tailteann Cup Round 2B SLIGO 0-29 WATERFORD 3-12 By Gavin Cawley At Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field Sligo booked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-465608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465608","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=465608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}