Details
Date | Time | Competition | Season |
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1 July 2023 | 1:30 pm | All Ireland Senior Championship | 2023 |
Match Report
Mayo Advance To Final Eight With Resounding Laois Win
Mayo advanced to the Ladies All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-finals with a fine win over Laois at Hasting MacHale Park.
From start to finish Mayo dominated proceedings and could’ve won by more. They hit a few goal chances wide while Laois goalkeeper Naoimi Luttrell thwarted them on a number of occasions.
Laois now face into a relegation play-off to avoid dropping back down to the Intermediate Championship for next year.
The game was delayed for a number of months as both teams returned to the dressing room in protest after the National Anthem.
Sinead Cafferky kicked the opening score of the game inside the first minute. Ciara Needham fired over a lovely point minutes later before Saoirse Delaney brought a fine save out of Laois keeper Luttrell in the fourth minute.
Mayo kept the scoreboard ticking over. Points from Cafferky, Eilis Ronayne, Sinead Walsh and Shauna Howley (free) saw them open up a seven point lead in the 12th minute.
Laois got their first score of the game in the 13th minute when Mo Nerney pointed a free. Anna Healy followed that up with a neat point. In the 20th minute Mayo had restored their seven point advantage with points from Walsh and Cafferky.
Donie Brennan’s side struggled to contain Mayo but got a third point through Ellen Healy in the 23rd minute. Three minutes later the Connacht side extended the lead to nine points when Walsh found the back of the net with a fine finish.
Before half-time another Nerney free left her side trailing by eight going in at the break - 1-09 to 0-04.
Laois found themselves behind by 12 points in the 38th minute; Clodagh McManamon with the pass for Walsh and she grabbed her side’s second goal of the game. She followed that up with two points to extend the lead to 14 points in the 41st minute. Walsh was superb throughout for her side.
Nerney fired over a free in the 43rd minute; it was Laois’ first score of the second half. Eva Galvin followed up with a point but that was cancelled out by a lovely point from Shauna Howley.
Credit to Laois they battled hard but Mayo were just too good for them. Walsh and Howley kicked over excellent scores near the end for Michael Moyes’ side while Laura Brennan kept her goal intact with a fine save from Nerney in the 58th minute.
Timeline
Sinéad Cafferky | 1' | |
Ciara Needham | 4' | |
Sinéad Cafferky | 5' | |
Sinéad Cafferky | 6' | |
Eilis Ronayne | 8' | |
Sinead Walsh | 10' | |
Shauna Howley | 12' | |
13' | Mo Nerney | |
17' | Anna Healy | |
Sinead Walsh | 18' | |
Sinéad Cafferky | 20' | |
23' | Ellen Healy | |
Sinead Walsh | 26' | |
28' | Mo Nerney | |
Deirdre Doherty | 35' | |
Sinéad Cafferky | 38' | |
Sinead Walsh | 39' | |
Deirdre Doherty Maria Reilly |
39' | |
Sinead Walsh | 41' | |
Fiona McHale Sarah Tierney |
42' | |
42' | Katie Donoghue Aoife Kirrane |
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42' | Orla Hennessy Grainne Moran |
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43' | Mo Nerney | |
Kathryn Sullivan Roisin Durkin |
44' | |
Ciara Needham Erin Murray |
46' | |
Shauna Howley | 49' | |
49' | Eva Galvin | |
52' | Sarah Ann Fitzgerald | |
Sinead Walsh | 53' | |
56' | Sarah Ann Fitzgerald | |
Shauna Howley | 57' |
Ground
Hastings Insurance MacHale Park |
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MacHale Park, McHale Road, Castlebar, Mayo, F23 RC84, Ireland |