{"id":499916,"date":"2026-06-14T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:30:12","slug":"lgfa-wrap-niamh-hetherton-on-the-mark-as-champs-dublin-book-home-all-ireland-quarter-final-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499916\/","title":{"rendered":"LGFA wrap: Niamh Hetherton on the mark as champs Dublin book home All-Ireland quarter-final \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reigning TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin<\/a> and last year\u2019s beaten semi-finalists Galway<\/a> and Kerry<\/a> have booked home quarter-finals in the race for the Brendan Martin Cup.<\/p>\n

A strong second-half performance by Dublin, featuring goals from Niamh Hetherton and Caoimhe O\u2019Connor, sent them on their way to a 2-13 to 0-5 win over Donegal<\/a>. The first half had been a tight affair and the Dubs led by 0-6 to 0-4 at the break.<\/p>\n

Eva Gallagher scored four points for Donegal, who will face Mayo next weekend to decide which other team advances from Group 3 to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

Danielle O\u2019Leary scored 1-3 as Kerry booked home advantage in the last eight. They were too strong for Kildare in Newbridge, running out 1-19 to 0-8 winners having led 1-9 to 0-3 at half-time.<\/p>\n

Aoife Rattigan and Molly Aspell scored seven points between them for Kildare. The Lilywhites face Tipperary next weekend to see who advances to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Galway also made it two wins in a row as Olivia Divilly hit 2-6 and R\u00f3is\u00edn Leonard weighed in with 1-6 in a comprehensive victory against Tyrone in Tuam. Galway, whose other goal came from Leanne Coen, had 19 points on their opponents, winning on a scoreline of 4-20 to 2-7.<\/p>\n

Niamh O\u2019Neill and Sorcha Gormally scored all but two points of Tyrone\u2019s tally. They face Meath next weekend with a place in the last eight up for grabs.<\/p>\n

There was late drama in Dungarvan when Cork, the reigning Division One champions, came from five points down with seven minutes remaining to pip Waterford by 1-15 to 1-14.<\/p>\n

Waterford led by 1-8 to 0-4 at the break, with Karen McGrath notching the goal. However, they got caught at the end, as Katie Quirke scored a late penalty before then hitting the winner with five seconds remaining. Waterford travel to Armagh next weekend with all three teams in Group 1 still in contention.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Monaghan, Roscommon, Wexford, Down and Fermanagh booked quarter-final places in the All-Ireland Intermediate championship. They will join Westmeath, Clare and Leitrim in the last eight.<\/p>\n

TG4 All-Ireland Senior ChampionshipGroup 1: Cork 1-15 Waterford 1-14Group 2: Kerry 1-19 Kildare 0-8Group 3: Dublin 2-13 Donegal 0-5Group 4: Galway 4-20 Tyrone 2-7 TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate ChampionshipGroup 1: Roscommon 2-13 Down 1-12Group 2: Monaghan 1-10 Louth 0-9Group 3: Wexford 5-12 Laois 2-14Group 4: Fermanagh 2-18 Wicklow 1-7TG4 All-Ireland Junior ChampionshipGroup A: Derry 6-10 Longford 0-10, Offaly 5-27 Kilkenny 0-3Group B: Limerick 2-20 London 0-1, Carlow 2-14 Sligo 0-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin and last year\u2019s beaten semi-finalists Galway and Kerry have booked home quarter-finals in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,43268,1128,4183,213986,213987,61,213988,213989,60,213990,14260,43],"class_list":["post-499916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaelic-football","tag-ladies-football","tag-football","tag-gaa","tag-gaaarmagh","tag-gaadonegal","tag-ie","tag-inter-county","tag-intercounty","tag-ireland","tag-ladies-gaelic-football","tag-lgfa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499916","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=499916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}