{"id":499460,"date":"2026-06-14T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499460\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:18:11","slug":"dublin-eliminate-cavan-from-all-ireland-sfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499460\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin eliminate Cavan from All-Ireland SFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin advanced into Round Three of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with a commanding second-half performance seeing them eliminate Cavan at Kingspan Breffni with a 1-24 to 0-16 win.<\/p>\n<p>Despite leading by a single point at half-time, Dublin were clinical and punished a series of Cavan misses including over 10 wides for the Breffni men to see out an 11-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a lively opening half, the sides were level on several occasions in an end-to-end contest. Cavan scored through Paddy Lynch, Gerard Smith and Conor Brady, while Dublin kept pace via Cormac Costello, Ciar\u00e1n Kilkenny and Con O&#8217;Callaghan, with Lee Gannon edging the visitors in front at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Cavan&#8217;s wastefulness in front of goal proved costly, with a series of wides allowing Dublin to stay in touch before gradually taking control after the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Con O&#8217;Callaghan and substitute Ross McGarry led the Dublin charge in the second half as the visitors began to pull clear, with Colm Basquel and Paddy Small also adding scores.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A key moment came when Ciar\u00e1n Brady was penalised for a foul on Colm Basquel, allowing O&#8217;Callaghan to convert a penalty as Dublin&#8217;s lead became unassailable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite scores from Emmanuel Shehu, and Tiernan Madden, Cavan were unable to mount a sustained comeback and bow out of the championship, while Dublin progress to Round Three in Monday&#8217;s draw.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781453891_421_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin advanced into Round Three of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with a commanding second-half performance seeing them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15218,213867,213866,615,213865,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-499460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cavan","tag-ciaran-brady","tag-con-o39callaghan","tag-dublin","tag-gerard-smith","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499460","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=499460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}