Reigning TG4 All-Ireland senior champions Dublin got the defence of their crown off to an impressive start as they defeated Mayo in Castlebar.<\/p>\n
Two goals from Niamh Hetherton and one from Kate Sullivan helped Dublin to a 3-12 to 0-12 victory, having led by 1-5 to 0-6 at the interval.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s All-Ireland finalists Meath went down by 2-21 to 1-9 at home to Galway in Bective.<\/p>\n
Meath did not build on an eleventh minute goal from Orla Finnegan and turned around level at 1-6 to 0-9 at the break despite playing with the strong breeze.<\/p>\n
Galway took charge with the wind behind them and goals from R\u00f3is\u00edn Leonard and Eva Noone capped a fine win.<\/p>\n
Ulster champions Armagh got their campaign off to a flying start when they defeated reigning Lidl League Division One champions Cork by 4-10 to 1-9 at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn.<\/p>\n
Aimee Mackin scored a first half hat-trick as Armagh built up a 3-4 to 0-5 interval lead with Caoimhe McNally sealing the win with a late goal.<\/p>\n
Munster champions Kerry sent out a title warning with an emphatic 2-16 to 0-4 win over a disappointing Tipperary challenge in Tralee.<\/p>\n
Kerry laid the foundation for victory in the opening half when goals from Siofra O\u2019Shea and Anna Galvin, who finished with 2-7 between them, built up a 2-9 to 0-1 interval despite playing against the wind.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate championship, Westmeath, Clare and Leitrim all through to home quarter finals after victories at the weekend.<\/p>\n
*Results:
TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship
*Group 1: Armagh 4-10 Cork 1-9
Group 2: Kerry 2-16 Tipperary 0-4
Group 3: Dublin 3-12 Mayo 0-12
Group 4: Galway 2-21 Meath 1-9<\/p>\n
***TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship
***Group 1: Down 5-13 Cavan 0-8
Group 2: Westmeath 3-12 Louth 3-9
Group 3: Clare 1-11 Laois 1-10
Group 4: Leitrim 4-12 Fermanagh 1-13<\/p>\n
***TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship
***Group A:
Derry 2-17 Antrim 1-12
Offaly 1-22 Longford 3-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning TG4 All-Ireland senior champions Dublin got the defence of their crown off to an impressive start as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-488143","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\/488143","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=488143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}