Tailteann Cup Quarter Final<\/p>\n
Laois 0-15 Down 2-23<\/p>\n
By Alan Hartnett at Laois Hire O’Moore Park<\/p>\n
Down are through to the semi finals of the Tailteann Cup following a comfortable 14 point victory over Laois at Laois Hire O’Moore Park this afternoon.<\/p>\n
For the third time in the last four seasons, the O’Moore county’s championship campaign has been ended by Down.<\/p>\n
Down beat them in the semi final of this competition in 2023, the final in 2024 and now once again in the quarter final.<\/p>\n
A strong opening 15 minutes laid the foundation for Down and while Laois just about broke even after that, the damage was done.<\/p>\n
The game began with Odhran Murdock and Evan O’Carroll trading points but after that, Down took control.<\/p>\n
They scored 1-5 without reply and built up a lead that they could take into half time.<\/p>\n
Miceal Rooney kicked two of those, Murdock landed a two pointer and Eamon Brown kicked a free – while there was a fair degree of fortune about their goal.<\/p>\n
Ryan Magill’s shot was saved by Matthew Byron and was heading out for a 45 but was diverted into his own net by Jack Lacey.<\/p>\n
Pa Kirwan replied for Laois but it was a ten point game by the 15th minute as keeper Ronan Burns slotted a two point free after Brown scored again.<\/p>\n
After that, Laois settled somewhat and there was little between the teams for the remaining 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Pa Kirwan was excellent and slotted a two pointer plus a single while Kevin Swayne ended the half with two points.<\/p>\n
Evan O’Carroll led the line for Laois all game and kicked three more points before the short whistle.<\/p>\n
But the problem for Laois was that Down continued to score at the other end as Burns came up from goal to kick a second two point free.<\/p>\n
Caolan Mooney, Ruairi McCormack and Callum Rogers all got in on the act too as Down led 1-16 to 0-10.<\/p>\n
Laois needed a good start to the second half to have any chance but the tone was set early on by Down as Eamon Brown kicked a two pointer.<\/p>\n
Laois had a great goal chance after that but Ciaran Burke shot wide from a tight angle.<\/p>\n
When that didn’t go in, the life went out of Laois and Down continued to punish them as they amassed 1-19 by the 45th minute with just one wide kicked at that stage.<\/p>\n
The game petered out from that point on with a late Daniel Guinness goal sending the Down crowd home happy following a 14 point win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tailteann Cup Quarter Final Laois 0-15 Down 2-23 By Alan Hartnett at Laois Hire O’Moore Park Down are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-498882","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\/498882","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=498882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}