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Tomorrow (4pm): Croke Park, P Faloon (Down)

THIS is a game Dublin, Offaly was always going to be an uphill and the Championship could battle for them. probably live without. An injury-free Cormac Egan

Dublin will learn nothing from it will be worth watching at Croke and Offaly will have to try and lift Park. His pace and hard running their spirits after it to prepare for are built for the modern game. the Tailteann Cup.

Offaly do carry some form in though after recording a rst championship victory since 2002 over Laois and their rst in Portlaoise since 1978.

They won comfortably on a scoreline of 2-13 to 1-8.

Laois had James Kelly sent off after 20 minutes, meaning it

HOME Malfunction

Dublin rolled over Meath last time out despite their kickouts suffering a rare malfunction, as

ve of Stephen Cluxton’s restarts were lost in the rst half.

The capital side took the Meath kickout apart in the second half to run out comfortable winners.

VERDICT:

Tomorrow (1.45pm): Croke Park, C Lane (Cork)

KILDARE will be dangerous in what was a tricky quarter- nal here. They’ll bristle at being test where they trailed by 0-8 to underdogs against Louth, 0-4 late in the rst half. something that doesn’t happen too often.

And they have a last-gasp win over Wicklow to draw on, although they were hugely fortunate to escape with the victory as the underdogs missed a late chance to lob to an empty net.

Saying that, they played half the game with 14 men and another 10 minute chunk with 13.

They’ll draw inspiration from that. Louth were 4-10 to 0-15 winners over an in-form Wexford

HOME DUBLIN v OFFALY DRAW KILDARE v LOUTH GAAGO DRAW AWAY AWAY Impressive

Ciaran Downey was impressive, hitting two goals and Sam Mulroy hit the other two.

Kildare have struggled for scores all year, and have been particularly goal shy, managing just 4 in Division 2, with three of those coming against Cork.

They didn’t score a goal in ve games and have been over reliant on Kevin Feely all year. Louth to get a goal or two and edge it.

VERDICT:

Louth

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