FIRST-HALF GOALS by Chris Bennett and Con O’Callaghan helped Dublin claim an 11-point win over Kilkenny in the Leinster MHC at Nowlan Park today.
Bennett and O’Callaghan were on the mark in the opening half as Pat Fanning’s lads opened up a 2-3 to 0-1 advantage by the interval.
Kilkenny tried to muster a challenge on the restart but were met by a strong Dublin defence. Dublin were in front by 2-4 to 0-2 entering the final quarter against a Kilkenny team that contained six St Kieran’s All-Ireland college winners.
Dublin closed out the game in style with points from Ryan McBride, O’Callaghan and Matthew Oliver (2) helping them to an impressive victory by 2-8 to 0-3.
Laois also reached the semi-final stage with a 0-26 to 3-14 win over Offaly today. Early goals from Cillian Kiely and Jordan Fogarty helped Offaly into a 2-5 to 0-4 lead.
Laois hit back to trail by 2-12 to 0-13 at the interval before then Eoin Cahill struck Offaly’s third goal as they went ahead by 3-12 to 0-16. But Laois finished strongly to triumph with Mark Kavanagh their scoring star.
Elsewhere a goal from Niall Hughes helped Wexford defeat Meath by 1-18 to 2-10 in Navan while Carlow were 1-22 to 3-12 victors against Kildare.
Wexford now take on Offaly at the quarter-final stage on May 10th while Kilkenny will meet Carlow on the same day.
Results – Leinster MHC
Dublin 2-8 Kilkenny 0-3
Laois 0-26 Offaly 3-14
Wexford 1-18 Meath 2-10
Carlow 1-22 Kildare 3-12
The way Kilkenny treat football in their county is shameful.
We’re talking hurling here!
For christs sake.2pts in a whole game of hurling,thats a KK football score!!Yes Dublin and is mentioned that they had a brilliamt defence but in all fairness that score is just shameful.Thought they could win the all ireland last year and now their getting whipped at the start of the championship.Except in big improvement in further matche(s)
Oh………and well done to the Dubs:-)some preformance!!
Seems a pretty miserable total for sure, but by all accounts the weather was shocking & Dublin keeper made a couple of great saves, as well as Kilkenny hitting 10-11 wides, so it could’ve been a lot closer. It certainly was closer when these teams met at younger age groups.
Well done to Laois.
That Con O’Callaghan lad is one to watch. Think he scored 1-8 for the minor footballers last week too.
Unfortunately that means he’ll likely not hurl senior for Dublin
True, but hopefully he might follow in the footsteps of his older brother Cian!
Is he Cian’s brother, i was wondering. Hopefully he will, heard he was a real threat yesterday.
Well Done to the Laois Minors –Lovely hurling from Lovely Laois !
26 scores is some scoring to be fair, Laois have really sorted out their underage hurling structures, in fact their seniors could cause an upset or two this summer.