All-Ireland SFC Semi-Final<\/p>\n
Mayo 3-23 Louth 0-15<\/p>\n
By Cian O’Connell at Croke Park<\/p>\n
With a minute remaining, in the upper tier of the Hogan Stand at GAA headquarters, a rendition of the Saw Doctors classic ‘Green and Red of Mayo’ was aired at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
It was that sort of encouraging and satisfactory day for Andy Moran’s exciting Mayo team – a place in the All-Ireland SFC Final booked with the minimum of fuss.<\/p>\n
There was so much to admire in Mayo’s accomplished performance. A tough tackling defensive unit forced turnovers, industrious displays were delivered throughout the field, and inside Darragh Beirne, Ryan O’Donoghue, and Kobe McDonald carried a potent attacking threat.<\/p>\n
O’Donoghue concluded the contest with a remarkable 1-11 haul, while the talented youngsters Beirne and McDonald scored and probed throughout too.<\/p>\n
Louth, so gritty in the 2026 Championship, just couldn’t summon the answers on this occasion. The 2-7 Mayo scored without reply either side of the break was decisive.<\/p>\n
Initially, following a Louth point by Dara McDonnell, Mayo pounced for a sixth minute goal. Paul Towey’s pass and a nifty flick from McDonald released O’Donoghue, who made the Louth net dance.<\/p>\n
Ciar\u00e1n Downey replied with a Louth score, but Mayo were causing plenty of difficulties. O’Donoghue, craving involvement was prominent, but Louth did reply.<\/p>\n
Downey and Sam Mulroy rifled over two pointers to edge them 0-7 to 1-2 in front, but O’Donoghue was always in the game.<\/p>\n
By the 25th minute Mayo were 1-8 to 0-8 ahead, but Louth restored parity as Conor Grimes thumped over a two pointer after a single to ensure the teams were level as half-time approached.<\/p>\n
Mayo seized the initiative. A Towey point and an opportunistic Beirne goal ensured Mayo departed 2-9 to 0-11 ahead at the turnaround.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter Mayo dictated the agenda to extend the advantage. Substitutes Tommy Conroy, Cian McHale, and Conor Loftus were lively, while Jordan Flynn made a significant contribution.<\/p>\n
Moran’s pumped up charges were 2-14 to 0-11 in front when Conroy’s darting run fashioned a chance for Loftus to goal. McHale’s subsequent point had Mayo 13 clear and Louth were in deep distress.<\/p>\n
The dynamic Downey terminated a 28 minute search for a Louth score with a point, but that was quickly cancelled out by McHale.<\/p>\n
Louth replacement Tommy Durnin and Downey (two pointer) did supply scores in the dying embers, but at the opposite end Mayo continued to enjoy good moments.<\/p>\n
O’Donoghue clipped a couple of two point frees, while the splendid McDonald and Mattie Ruane also curled over scores as Mayo finished with a flourish. Another trip to GAA headquarters looms for Mayo in a fortnight.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Mayo: Ryan O’Donoghue 1-11 (2 2ptfs, 2fs, 1m), Darragh Beirne 1-2 (1f), Kobe McDonald 0-4, Conor Loftus 1-0, Jordan Flynn (2pt) and Cian McHale 0-2 each, Paul Towey and Mattie Ruane 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Louth: Ciaran Downey 0-6 (2 2pts), Conor Grimes 0-4 (1 2pt), Sam Mulroy 0-2 (2ptf), Dara McDonnell, Tommy Durnin, and Ciaran Keenan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Mayo: Jack Livingstone; Jack Coyne, Donnacha McHugh, Eoin McGreal; Stephen Coen, David McBrien, Enda Hession; Bob Tohy, Jack Carney; Sam Callinan, Paul Towey, Jordan Flynn; Darragh Beirne, Ryan O’Donoghue, Kobe McDonald.<\/p>\n
Subs: Tommy Conroy for Towey (HT), Conor Loftus for Coen (42), Cian McHale for Beirne (50), Fenton Kelly for McGreal (55), Mattie Ruane for Flynn (62).<\/p>\n
Louth: Niall McDonnell; Emmet Carolan, Donal McKenny, Daire Nally; Conal McKeever, Dara McDonnell, Craig Lennon; Conor Early, James Maguire; Kieran McArdle, Sam Mulroy, Conor Grimes, Ciar\u00e1n Keenan, Ciar\u00e1n Downey, Ryan Burns.<\/p>\n
Subs: Tadhg McDonnell for Lennon (23), Ciar\u00e1n Byrne for Keenan (40), Tommy Durnin for Maguire (46), Conall McCaul for Grimes (53), Anthony Williams for McKeever (62).<\/p>\n
Referee: David Coldrick (Meath).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Semi-Final Mayo 3-23 Louth 0-15 By Cian O’Connell at Croke Park With a minute remaining, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-545186","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\/545186","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=545186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}