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10th Nov 2018

Sligo club get in lovely dig at Mayo councillor as Wexford champs win with 12 men

Niall McIntyre

A Saturday in November.

God’s day of rest is devoted to the seniors and so the juniors and intermediates all over the country go at it on Saturdays.

We’re at the provincial stages now and this weekend saw Young Hurler of the Year Kyle Hayes playing junior football and it saw Wexford champs Horeswood winning a quarter final despite finishing the game with only 12 men.

Mayo hurlers Tooreen travelled over to London while the Kildare intermediate champs defeated Dublin’s representatives in a thriller.

Here’s your comprehensive round-up from all over the country.

Connacht results

Football

Intermediate semi-final

The absence of star forward Ryan O’Donoghue seemed to cost Mayo champs Belmullet, who got off to a flying start, but were pegged back by a gallant Spideal side.

An Spideal (Galway) 0-13 Belmullet (Mayo) 0-9

Junior semi-final

Enniscrone/Kilglass were hosts of the junior semi-final, and they got in a lovely dig at Mayo councillor Al McDonnell who last week criticised the club for its parking facilities and its general hosting of Tourlestrane v Ballintubber in the senior quarter final.

This week, they reserved parking for him…

And the best seat in the house too…

Sligo champs Easkey went on to win the day.

Easkey 3-7 (Sligo) Balla 0-9 (Mayo)

Hurling

There was a massive win for last year’s All-Ireland semi-finalists Tooreen over in London. They were 7/4 underdogs but the underdogs – the first leg of this weekend’s SportsJOE GAA accumulator came up trumps to beat the London champs by two.

Intermediate semi-final

Tooreen 0-18 St Gabriel’s 1-13

Leinster results

Football

Intermediate quarter finals

The Kildare champs Two Mile House enjoyed a famous win over Dublin’s Round Towers. Courtwood and Shamrocks won for Offaly and Laois while Wexford champs Horeswood defeated Longford’s Rathcline by a point despite getting three men sent off.

That sounded like an entertaining one with Rathcline also having their goalie red carded.

Two Mile House (Kildare) 4-15 Round Towers Lusk (Dublin) 1-16

St Mochtas (Louth) 1-10 Courtwood (Laois) 2-9

Shamrocks (Offaly) 1-15 Ballinabranna (Carlow) 1-10

Rathcline (Longford) 0-13 Horeswood (Wexford) 1-11

Junior quarter finals

Young Irelands Dundalk (Louth) 2-15 Annanough (Laois) 0-5,

St Brigids (Offaly) 3-13 St Finians Newcastle (Dublin) 4-8

Hurling

Junior quarter final

St Maurs (Dublin) 1-22 Erins Own 1-9

Munster results

Football

The presence of Limerick’s All-Ireland winners Kyle Hayes and Barry Murphy in the Kildimo-Pallaskenry couldn’t stop Cork champs Dromtarriffe, though the Limerick lads put up a good fight.

Junior quarter finals

Dromtarriffe (Cork) 2-10 Kildimo-Pallaskenry (Limerick) 1-7

Ballylooby-Castlegrace (Tipperary) 1-9 Beaufort (Kerry) 5-16

Hurling

Junior quarter finals

Tournafulla (Limerick) 1-22 Kilgarvan (Kerry) 2-09

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