In team news, Davy Byrne replaces James McCarthy, who didn’t have his red card against Mayo rescinded on Friday morning.

Byrne’s inclusion is a surprise. The Ballymun midfielder comes in for his debut ahead of Kevin Nolan.

Laois, meanwhile, are without David Conway.

He has been side-lined for the foreseeable future after injuring his hamstring in training. The corner-forward had enjoyed a very impressive start to the league campaign, scoring three points from play in his side’s victory over Donegal.

Billy Sheehan will replace Conway in the only change from the team that started against Donegal in Letterkenny.

Dublin start off with a couple of free-kicks but Laois handle the pressure well. Three minutes in and no score yet.

Laois 0-1 Dublin 0-0. Laois take the lead as Paul Cahalane scores his first free of the game. First blood to the O’Moore County.

Laois 0-1 Dublin 0-1. Fine score from Eoghan O’Gara, who twists on to his unfavoured left boot before shooting over the bar. Ross McConnell tries to follow that up with an effort from distance, but shoots wide.

Laois 0-3 Dublin 0-1. Michael Savage, in the Dublin goal, is powerless as Ross Munnelly shoots over. Clancy then provides the threat of a goal before shooting over from a tight angle.

The home side are on top here.

Laois 0-4 Dublin 0-1. Munnelly curls over his second point of the game with his left foot.

Laois 0-4 Dublin 0-2. A great individual score from Mossie Quinn. He was going nowhere on his right foot, pursued by a number of Laois defenders, so he twists around to his left and arrows one over the bar.

Munnelly then drags an effort wide, Laois’s first.

Laois 0-4 Dublin 0-3. Diarmuid Connolly, in the right corner-forward position, shoots home impressively. Dublin have finally woken up.

At the other end of the pitch, Cahalane shoots wide for Laois.

A second wide for Dublin from a Mossie Quinn free-kick.

Laois 0-4 Dublin 0-4. Darren Strong’s attempt is kept out by Savage, who, wisely, chooses not to try and catch the ball. The ball ends up with Connolly in midfield and his shot is high and… over the bar!

Great two-footed football from Connolly.

Laois 0-5 Dublin 0-4. Dublin draw level, and Laois immediately counter and lead again. Cahalane with his side’s first point for eight minutes.

A free to Laois as Billy Sheehan is fouled, but Clancy’s kick is short and Savage claims it easily.

Difficult to see any rhythm to the match. Both sides are impressing in their forward play, but the defences are struggling with the inclement conditions. It’s slippery out there.

A brilliant centre from Mossie Quinn but Dublin’s Paul Brogan misses at point blank range. Disappointing from the no.10. There’s still a point in it.

Laois 0-6 Dublin 0-5. Chance for Dublin as O’Gara punches a high ball into the path of the onrushing Quinn, who blazes over. Dublin have come close to a goal in the last five minutes but can’t apply the finishing touch.

Colm Begley punishes Pat Gilroy’s men as he curls the ball over, before Paul Flynn curls Dublin back to within a point.

Laois 0-6 Dublin 0-6. In the absence of Stephen Cluxton, Connolly takes over free kicking duties from the right corner-forward position. He’s on form and grabs his fourth point of the game. All square, seven minutes from the break.

Dublin 0-7 Laois 0-6. Dublin lead for the first time tonight, and it’s six points from play for the Dublin inside forward line. This time the ball passes through a number of Dub hands before Eoghan O’Gara slides over one of the points of the game.

Dublin have kicked the last three scores.

Bryan Cullen will shortly be coming into the Dublin side for Paul Brogan. Must be an injury…

Clancy is replaced by Colm Kelly from Stradbelly, while Cullen replaces Brogan. The youngest Brogan doesn’t look happy so injury can be ruled out. He was just out of sorts.

McManamon, meanwhile, has his first shot on goal for Dublin but the defence is too crowded.

Mossie Quinn misses with his free-kick effort – Dublin’s fourth wide of the match – as the half-time whistle is blown. Dublin lead by a point.

Meanwhile, in the Division 2 clash in Navan, Kildare lead Meath by 0-8 to 0-6…

Here are the other half-times from around the country…

Division 1
Armagh 0-6 Mayo 1-7
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Division 2
Derry 0-9 Monaghan 0-3
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Division 3
Antrim 1-8 Offaly 0-6
Cavan 0-10 Sligo 0-3
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Time for a cup of tea here, see you for the second half…

We’re back!

Davy Byrne, making his first Dublin start, has a crack at goal but his effort goes wide. Incidentally, Ger Brennan started the match as Dublin captain but Bryan Cullen led the side out in the second half.

Dublin 0-9 Laois 0-6. Laois substitute Colm Kelly takes a pass from team-mate Colm Begley but shoots over.

Dublin move forward and Mossie Quinn finds Connolly, who finds the posts with his left foot. Five scores from five for Connolly.

Dublin 0-10 Laois 0-6. Cahillane is taken out of the game by Bryan Cullen, who will be doing well not to be sent off for that. Cahillane takes treatment. The first unsavoury incident of the game.

Cullen, somehow, escapes censure as Eoghan O’Gara kicks his third point of the game. Healthy lead now for Dublin.

Byrne has not had the best of times on his Dublin debut, and he shoots wide yet again. Dublin’s fifth wide. Laois have also missed five, so both sides have been reasonably accurate.

Another wide from Dublin Ross McConnell. Stephen Cluxton is being missed… Still four points in it.

Dublin 0-10 Laois 0-8. Connolly turns it over and Dublin lose possession in a dangerous position. Rory O’Carroll concedes a free-kick and Colm Kelly grabs the first score for Laois in almost 27 minutes.

Meanwhile, Alan Brogan and Michael Dara McAuley are both on for Dublin who, for all of Connolly’s fine point-kicking, have never really threatened to score a goal.

Munnelly, meanwhile, gets a terrific score for Laois after barging through three Dublin defenders.

Munnelly’s three points so far have come from play, and a free-kick from the veteran strikes the upright. As it comes back into play, Kelly wastes a golden chance to register the first goal of the game.

Dublin 0-13 Laois 0-8. Mossie Quinn shoots over the bar before the biggest cheer of the night – suicidal defending from Laois and Alan Brogan has his first point of the game.

Dublin are not done, and O’Gara grabs yet another point, before Munnelly shoots wide for Laois.

Dublin 0-14 Laois 0-8. O’Gara’s shooting has been criticised in the past but he has five points tonight, bending in from the right.

He then misses one.

Dublin 0-14 Laois 1-8. Laois are back in the game and they have the first goal of the game, as Ross Munnelly drops the ball over the head of Savage from a Kelly pass.

Laois’ Scott Conroy is yellow carded for a challenge on Bryan Cullen. Cullen doesn’t go down and that probably saved Conroy from a sending off.

Munnelly is then yellow carded for kicking out… Laois are losing their discipline… Three minutes remain.

Dublin 0-14 Laois 1-9. A Colm Kelly free for Laois goes over the bar, and there are only two between the sides.

Dublin 1-14 Laois 1-9. Eoghan O’Gara wins the man of the match award, and it’s deserved after five points.

As soon as that’s written, he justifies it further with a goal for Dublin! He takes a beautiful, fisted pass from Connolly before shooting home.

Kieran Lillis and O’Gara get involved in a tussle and the referee speaks to one of his umpires. We’re in the fourth minute of injury time as news reaches us that Kildare have beaten Meath by 0-18 to 2-11.

And that’s it from O’Moore Park too. Ross Munnelly’s goal gave Dublin a nervous few minutes, but a goal from man of the match Eoghan O’Gara gave Dublin a five-point victory.

Before we head off, here are all of tonight’s scores…

Division 1
Armagh 0-11 Mayo 1-14
Laois 1-9 Dublin 1-14
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Division 2
Derry 0-14 Monaghan 0-8
Meath 2-11 Kildare 0-18
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Division 3
Antrim 2-14 Offaly 1-8
Cavan 0-14 Sligo 1-8
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Division 2B
London 0-7 Meath 2-8

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