Meath and Kildare have joined Dublin and Louth in the Leinster MFC semi-finals after comfortably dispatching Offaly and Westmeath respectively in last night's quarter-finals.

In Tullamore, Trevor Giles' young Royals finished with a flourish to dethrone holders Offaly by 5-16 to 0-9. After losing their first two group matches, Meath have now scored a whopping 17-61 in their last three outings. However, last night's game was closer than what the scoreline suggests with only three points having separated the sides before the visitors fired five goals in the final quarter.

Meath led by 0-8 to 0-2 at the interval, but the Faithful rallied with points from Paddy Burns, substitute Joe Furey and Dara Waldron to reduce the gap to 0-8 to 0-11 with 13 minutes remaining. The Royals then turned on the style by blasting 3-4 in a devastating nine-minute spell with Liam O'Donoghue, Conn Brennan and substitute Dara Loughran raising green flags.

Further majors in injury-time from Tomás Proudfoot and Harris Moffat left all of 22 points in it at full-time. 

Kildare has things very much their own way in the other quarter-final at TEG Cusack Park where five first half goals propelled them to a 5-15 to 0-12 victory over Westmeath.

Westmeath had started the campaign impressively with wins over Dublin and Longford, but were a beaten docket by half-time when goals from Cian Kehoe, Aidan Tobin, Liam Mescal, Jack Doran and Jamie Flood left the Lilywhites perched on a 5-8 to 0-4 lead.

The hosts narrowed the gap after the restart, but the result was never in doubt.

The semi-final draw will be made at 11am today (Wednesday).

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