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Date Time Competition Season
25 June 2022 1:00 pm All Ireland Senior Championship 2022

Match Report

SFC: Kerry through to the quarters

Half-time substitute Rachel Dwyer scored 1-5 and Kerry advanced to the quarter-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship after victory over Westmeath at a windy Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney.

The victors, who go through as Group C winners, also ensured that Westmeath would face into a relegation play-off after their second consecutive defeat.

Kerry made six changes to their line-up from the Galway game but it mattered little as they raced into a 1-5 to 0-0 lead after just 13 minutes, playing with the wind at their backs. Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh scored two early frees before the returning Síofra O’Shea got her first of two first half points in the 8th minute, to push Kerry three ahead.

Katie Brosnan and Niamh Carmody then added scores in the 11th and 12th minutes before Ní Mhuircheartaigh punched to the net after excellent approach work from Mary O’Connell. Westmeath looked in serious bother but started to string some cohesive moves together and Sarah Dillon and Karen Hegarty pointed to reduce the deficit.

Ní Mhuircheartaigh stemmed the Westmeath tide with a lovely score in the 25th minute after a great clearance from Eilis Lynch, but once again Westmeath fought back and the impressive Sarah Lynch scored a free from an acute angle, and Chloe Kelly popped up from the backs to slot another effort to bring the score to 1-6 to 0-4 with one minute remaining.

The last two scores of the half belonged to Kerry though with Katie Brosnan and O’Shea getting their second points of the game to see the Kingdom take a 1-8 to 0-4 lead into half-time.

Impressive substitute Dwyer got an early second half goal for Kerry when she punched in from close range and O’Shea was unlucky a minute later when her effort was miraculously cleared off the line.

Westmeath tried hard but could not find a way past a resolute Kerry defence and by 50 minutes the result was beyond doubt as Kerry led by 2-14 to 0-6.Sarah Dillon (free) and Lucy Power continued to carry the fight for Westmeath but in the end, scores from Niamh Broderick and two from Dwyer (one free), sealed top spot for Kerry.

Kerry

1Ciara Butler Goalkeeper
2Eilís Lynch Defender
3Kayleigh Cronin 30 Defender
4Aoife Dillane Defender
5Ciara McCarthy Defender
6Emma Costello Defender
7Clodagh Ni Chonchuir 22 Defender
8Mary O’Connell Midfielder
9Anna Galvin Midfielder 50'
10Katie Brosnan Forward 10', 38'
11Caoimhe Evans Forward
12Niamh Carmody 24 Forward 11', 36'
13Danielle O’Leary 26 Forward 44'
14Síofra O’Shea Forward 7', 30'
15Louise Ni Mhuircheartaigh 21 Forward 12'
1', 2', 24'
16Mary Ellen Bolger Goalkeeper
17Aishling O’Connell Defender
18Lorraine Scanlon Midfielder
19Niamh Ni Chonchuir Forward
20Ciara Murphy Defender
21Rachel Dwyer 15 Forward 33'
45', 51', 59', 66'
22Niamh Broderick 7 Defender 58'
23Cáit Lynch Defender
24Anna Clifford 12
25Meadhbh Johnston
26Elizabeth Mohan 13
27Emer Riordan
28Laoise Coughlan
29Keri-Ann Hanrahan Forward
30Julie O’Sullivan 3 Defender

Westmeath

1Aoife O’Donnell Goalkeeper
2Melek Fagan Defender
3Muirean Scally Defender
4Lucy Power 21 Defender 54'
5Niamh Nolan 19 Defender
6Amy Alford Defender 1'
7Chloe Kelly Defender 28'
8Fiona Coyle Midfielder
9Tracey Dillon Midfielder
10Vicky Carr Forward 36', 65'
11Sarah Dillon Forward 17', 20', 26', 54'
12Kelly Boyce-Jordan Forward
13Karen Hegarty 22 Forward
14Kiara Giles Forward
15Ciara Blundell Forward
16Aoife Temple Goalkeeper
17Kacey Geoghegan 18
18Aoife O’Malley 17
19Susanna Buckley 5
20Mia McDonald
21Zoe Guinane 4
22Shannon Lyons 13 Forward
23Keelie Mulderry
24Meadbh Monaghan
25Ashley Ruane Midfielder
26Shannon Mulvihill

Ground

Fitzgerald Stadium
Fitzgerald Stadium, Lime Grove, Killarney Urban ED, Killarney Municipal District, County Kerry, Munster, V93 CP26, Ireland

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