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Date Time Competition Season
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.

Mayo

1Laura Brennan Goalkeeper
2Eilis Ronayne Defender 8'
3Clodagh McManamon Defender
4Danielle Caldwell Defender
17Saoirse Lally Defender
6Ciara Needham 18 Defender 4'
7Kathryn Sullivan 29 Defender
8Aoife Geraghty Midfielder
9Fiona McHale 23 Midfielder
20Maria Cannon Forward
11Sinéad Cafferky Forward 38'
1', 5', 6', 20'
25Saoirse Delaney
10Shauna Howley Forward 12', 49', 57'
14Deirdre Doherty 24 Forward 35'
15Sinead Walsh Forward 26'
10', 18', 39', 41', 53'
16Lisa Reid Goalkeeper
13Lisa Cafferky Forward
5Tamara O’Connor Defender
12Sarah Mulvihill Forward
18Erin Murray 6
19Roisin Flynn Defender
21Rachel Kearns Forward
22Lucy Wallace Defender
23Sarah Tierney 9
24Maria Reilly 14 Forward
26Hannah Reape Midfielder
27Jenna Mortimer Defender
28Ella Brennan
29Roisin Durkin 7
30Michelle Lynch

Laois

16Naomi Luttrell
2Sinead Farrelly Defender
3Clodagh Dunne Defender
4Aimme Kelly REMOVE Defender
5Shifra Havill Defender
6Ellen Healy Defender 23'
7Laura Nerney Defender
8Anna Healy Midfielder 17'
9Orla Hennessy 17 Midfielder
22Eva Galvin Forward 49'
11Laura-Marie Maher Forward
12Andrea Moran Midfielder
13Sarah Ann Fitzgerald Forward 52', 56'
14Mo Nerney Forward 13', 28', 43'
15Katie Donoghue 10 Forward
1Eimear Barry Goalkeeper
10Aoife Kirrane 15 Midfielder
17Grainne Moran 9
18Tara Byrne
19Grainne Lalor
20Ellie O Connell
21Rachel Williams Defender
23Jane Moore Midfielder
24Kelly O Neill REMOVE

Ground

Hastings Insurance MacHale Park
MacHale Park, McHale Road, Castlebar, Mayo, F23 RC84, Ireland

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