Portlaoise (Laois) and Killoe (Longford) are safely through to the quarter-finals of the Leinster club SFC after accounting for Palatine (Carlow) and St. James' (Wexford) respectively.
Less than 24 hours after their emphatic Laois SFC final replay victory over Emo, Portlaoise overcame Palatine by 0-15 to 1-8 at Netwatch Cullen Park.
Late points from Gareth Dillon and Craig Rogers gave 'The Town' a slender 0-5 to 0-4 interval lead. A flurry of scores from Ricky Maher, Brian 'Bruno' McCormack, Rogers and Paul Cahillane saw them surge 0-13 to 0-8 in front after the restart before a fisted goal by Shane O'Neill brough the Carlow men back into it.
However, Cahir Healy replied with an inspirational score to earn a quarter-final against Kildare kingpins Sarsfields for the nine-in-a-row Laois champions, who are captained by Kieran Lillis - son of Palatine manager Mick.
Emmet Og, Killoe will meet the winners of tomorrow's Meath SFC final between Navan O'Mahony's and Na Fianna in the last eight after trouncing first-time Wexford winners St. James' 5-11 to 1-4 at Glennon Bros Pearse Park.
Declan Rowley's men stormed into a 4-4 to 0-0 lead inside the first quarter thanks to goals from Mark Hughes, Denis McGoldrick, Sean McCormack and Larry Moran.
It was 4-6 to 0-2 in the Longford side's favour at half-time and Hughes got a second goal from a penalty midway through the second half to complete the rout.
Portlaoise - G Brody; D Seale, C Healy (0-1), P Cotter; E Whelan, K Lillis, B Mulligan; D Cullen (0-1), C Boyle; G Dillon (0-1), B Smith, B Glynn (0-1); B McCormack (0-3), C Rogers (0-2, 1f), P Cahillane (0-5, 4f). Subs: R Maher (0-1) for D Cullen, C Finn for P Cotter, C McEvoy for B Glynn, C Dunphy for C Boyle.
Palatine - C Kearney; M Rennick, A Murphy, D Kinsella; J Kane, Christopher Crowley, S Reilly (0-1); N Reid, D Reid (0-3, 2f); P Cushen, P Reid, J Reid; T Kenny, B Kelly (0-3f), J Kenny (0-1). Subs: Conor Crowley for P Cushen, S O'Neill (1-0) for D Kinsella (BC), J Byrne for J Kenny, L Gordon for B Kelly.
Referee - A Nolan.
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Killoe - C Burns; L Hughes, P McCormack, D Keogh; S Dowd, M Quinn (0-3), C Farrelly; P Thompson, S Kiernan (0-1); D McGoldrick (1-1), D Mimnagh (0-1), P Kiernan (0-2); L Moran (1-1), S McCormack (1-2), M Hughes (2-0, 1-0pen). Subs: S Clarke for S Dowd, J McCormack for P Thompson, E Clarke for L Moran, R Keogh for C Farrelly, C Donohoe for D McGoldrick, P O'Hara for M Quinn.
St. James' - J Ryan; S Murphy, J Barron, G Doyle; D Doyle, R Barron, D Keating; G Molloy, M O'Hanlon (0-1f); A Parle (1-1, 0-1f), K O'Grady (0-2f), M Molloy; B Molloy, B Doyle, D Barron. Subs: L Murphy for D Barron, D Lyons for D Keating, B Kennedy for G Doyle (BC), E Dunning for M Molloy, E Crosbie for S Murphy, S Dunning for B Molloy.
Referee - J Hickey.
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