Red Hands keep Louth at arms length

TYRONE LOUTH 2-23 1-11

TYRONE condemned Louth to a second straight defeat in Omagh as Damian Casey’s 1-10 haul at Healy Park helped the Red Hands to a comfortable victory.

Louth were hoping to bounce back from an opening round defeat to Roscommon, but their hosts proved too strong, building on a six-point half-time lead.

Casey reeled off the opening six points, and added a goal, but that was cancelled out by a Darren Geoghegan strike to leave Tyrone with a 1-11 to 1-5 cushion at the break. Ryan McKernan smashed home Tyrone’s second goal, and scores from Ciaran Lagan, Tiarnan Morgan, McKernan and Casey kept the visitors at arm’s length. TYRONE: C McElhatton; L Devlin, R Devlin, J Kerr; S Muldoon, C Kearns 0-1, D Begley; R McKernan 1-4, C McNally; C Lagan 0-2, C Cross, T Morgan 0-4; M Mulgrew 0-1, D Casey 1-10, B McGurk 0-1. Subs: B Gormley for McGurk (40), D Rafferty for L Devlin (51).

LOUTH: K McNally; R McKeown, M Lyons, A Smith; D O’Hanrahan, G Smyth, S Hoey; J Costelloe, C Deane; D Geoghegan 1-5, D Kettle 0-1, J McDonnell; G McKeown 0-4, S Callan, D Stephenson 0-1. Subs: F Joyce for McDonnell (40), P Fallon for Costelloe (55), P Brennan for Stephenson (59), R Wallace for Geoghegan (62).

REFEREE: A Ferguson (Fermanagh) GAA

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